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REPORT 


OF    THE 


PROCKKDINGS 


COMMEMORATING    THE 


One-Hundredth  Anniversary 


OF    THE 


ESTABLISHMENT  OF  A  CHARTERED  SCHOOL, 


KNOWN    AT    DIFFERENT    PERIODS    AS 


THE  RUTIxARD  COUNTY  GRAMMAR  SCHOOL,  CASTLETOE 
'      SEMINARY  AND  STATE  NORMAI.  SCHOOL, 


IN 

CASTLETON,  VERMONT. 

1787-1887. 


RUTLAND : 
THE  TUTTLE  COMPANY,  PRINTERS. 

1888. 


^Iterje  stoall  fee  a  teatxdf til  ot  x:0trix  in  tftje  ieartft  upon 
tfeje  t0$r  0t  tftje  mountuius ;  tto  f rxiit  ttt^icjeof  Blxall  slitafe^ 

lifeje  ^jeIratX0tI.— Psalms  lxxii,  i6. 


PREFACE 


At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar 
School,  held  January  27,  1886,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  seven  be  appointed  by  the  president  to  take 
into  consideration  the  subject  of  celebrating  the  centennial  of  the  Rutland  County 
Grammar  School  and  to  report  at  a  future  meeting. 

In  accordance  therewith  the  following  gentlemen  were  appointed  :  Andrew  N. 
Adams,  Henry  L.  Clark,  A.  E,  Leavenworth,  Walter  E.  Howard,  D.  D.  Cole  and 
J.  B.  Bromley.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation  held  January  26,  1887, 
this  committee  reported  the  advisability  of  observing  in  a  public  manner  the  school 
centennial,  and  the  following  executive  committee  was  appointed  :  J.  B.  Bromley, 
A.  E.  Leavenworth,  E.  H.  Armstrong,  D.  D.  Cole,  Walter  E.  Howard  and  Henry  l! 
Clark.  This  committee  at  once  organized  by  electing  A.  E.  Leavenworth,  Presi- 
dent ;  J.  B.  Bromley,  Secretary,  and  D.  D.  Cole,  Treasurer.  The  following  sub- 
commiti;ees  were  appointed  : 

On  Entertaikment  :  D.  G.  Burt,  Chairman;  Mrs.  Minnie  F.  Baldwin 
Mrs.  H.  E.  Armstrong,  J.  S.  Button,  Mrs.  C.  C.  Farwell,  Miss  Ella  A.  French 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Griswold,  W.  S.  Leavenworth,  Miss  Julia  Parsons,  H.  C.  Rumsey,  H.  F 
Reed,  Miss  Cora  J.  Sargent,  Mrs.  Jennie  Wilkins,  Miss  Lucy  Wadsworth  Miss 
Julia  D.  Clark,  Castleton  ;  R.  T.  Ellis,  Fair  Haven ;  Miss  Mary  Giddings'  Hub- 
bardton  ;  F.  A.  Morse,  West  Rutland  ;  R.  W.  Hyde,  Hydeville. 

On  Tables  :    John  M.  Ainsworth,  Judson  N.  Hooker,  Ellis  N.  Korthrop 
On  Platforms,  Arches,  Etc.:    A.  K.  Miller,  D.  E.  Bibbins,  H.  A.  Waters 
On  Outside  Decorations,  Illumination,  Etc.  :  F.  L.  Reed,  J  H  Withprpll 
T.  P.  Smith.  *     '       ^^^i^ii, 

On  Printing:    Henry  L.  Clark. 

On  Music  :    E.  H.  Armstrong,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Sherman. 

On  Decoration  op  Church  and  SexMInary  :  Miss  Jennie  D.  Adams  E  J 
Armstrong,  Carl  S.  Cole,  Miss  Mary  W.  Hoyt,  Miss  Ida  C.  Hoyt,  P.  R.  Leavenworth" 
F.  D.  Moulton,  Miss  Mary  0.  Northrop,  F.  J.  Preston,  Leon  B.  Smith,  2d  Miss 
Alma  G.  Wright.  ' 

On  Public  Dinner  :  Horace  B.  Ellis,  Mrs.  Hiram  Ainsworth,  Mrs.  Julia 
Arnold,  Mrs.  D.  D.  Cole,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Clark,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Dutton,  Mrs.  L.  Fennel 
Mrs.  C.  M.  Hawkins,  Miss  Alida  Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Pond,  Mrs.  A.  V.  Ransom  Mrs' 
H.  C.  Rumsey,  Mrs.  Dr.  James  Sanford,  Castleton;  Mrs.  Laura  Brown  Crimton 
Rutland  ;  Harley  Sheldon,  West  Rutland  ;  E.  J.  Ganson,  Hubbardton  ;  Mrs.  Julia 
Spencer,  Fair  Haven;  Allen  St.  John,  Hubbardton;  Mrs.  M.  D.  Cole  Mrs  Wm 
Farnham,  Poultney.  »         •         . 

On  Finance:  D.  D.  Cole,  Castleton;  J.  E.  Manley,  West  Rutland-  L 
W.  Redmgton,  Rutland  ;  M.  B.  Dewey,  Fair  Haven  ;  A.  J.  Dickinson,  Benson 

On  Correspondence:  Walter  E.  Howard,  Margaret  K.  Adams,  Marie  0 
Northrop.  ' 


681964 


4  PREFA  CE, 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  immediatelj  began  the  difficult  and  well- 
nigh  impossible  task  of  obtaining  the  names  and  addresses  of  all  former  teachers 
and  scholars  scattered  up  and  down  the  world.  Name  by  name  the  roll  increased  ; 
one  name  gave  a  clue  to  another  :  old  time  pupils  gave  news  of  classmates  and 
friends  ;  teachers  reported  remembered  scholars.  But  generations  had  come  and 
gone.  The  committee  personally  knew  only  their  own  contemporaries.  Catalogues 
were  missing  and  when  found  contained  only  the  addresses  of  boys  and  girls.  But 
where  were  the  men  and  women  !  After  all  possible  research  and  correspondence  the 
committee  was  saddened  by  the  thought  that  its  work  was  only  partly  done  and  that 
many  names  had  vanished  like  the  faces  and  many  others  dwelt  apart.  To  every 
address  that  could  be  obtained  the  following  circular  was  sent,  both  as  an  invitation 
and  as  a  request  for  other  names  and  addresses,  and  catalogues  : 


Should  auld  acquaintance  be  forgot, 
And  never  brought  to  min'  1 

Castleton-,  Vt.,  March  1,  1887. 

To  all  former   Teachers  and  Pupils  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School, 
Castleton  Seminary,  and  State  Normal  School — Greeting  : 

The  year  1887  marks  the  one-hundredth  anniversary  of  a  chartered  school  for 
higher  education  at  Castleton.  For  a  century  this  institution,  under  different 
names,  but  without  interruption,  has  continued  its  beneficent  work.  To-day  its 
pupils  are  found  in  every  State  of  the  Union  and  even  in  far  off  lands,  filling  with 
honorable  lives  the  the  stations  for  which  they  were  fitted  here. 

It  has  been  thought  a  suitable  thing  to  celebrate  the  centennial  of  the  school  by 
gathering  her  children  from  the  corners  of  the  world  and  doing  honor  together  to 
her  hundred  years  of  gracious  service.  The  10th  of  August  has  been  fixed  upon  as 
the  time  for  the  formal  and  public  observance  of  this  anniversary.  It  is  expected 
that  eminent  graduates  of  the  school  will  take  part  in  these  exercises  and  every  per- 
son who  has  ever  been  connected  with  the  institution  in  any  capacity  is  urged  to  be 
present. 

To  those  of  us  who  are  residents  of  Vermont,  it  is  an  added  pride  that  the 
school  at  Castleton  is  the  oldest  educational  institution  in  continuous  service  in  the 
State,  and  it  shall  be  our  grateful  and  pleasant  duty  to  make  this  celebration  worthy 
of  our  alma  mater  and  of  the  Commonwealth. 

All  are  requested  to  send  us  early  notice  of  an  intention  to  be  present  or,  if  to 
come  be  impossible,  a  letter  of  greeting  and  good  cheer. 

It  is  also  requested  that  all  persons  into  whose  hands  this  circular  may  fall  will 
send  us  names  and  addresses  of  school-mates  and  contemporaries,  in  order  that  the 
notice  of  this  celebration  may  be  as  widely  circulated  as  possible. 

Any  one  having  catalogues  of  the  school  will  confer  a  favor  by  f or  svarding  them 
for  our  use. 

Kespectfully, 

WALTER  E.  HOWARD, 
MARGARET  K.  ADAMS, 
MARIE  0.  NORTHROP, 

Committee  on  Correspondence. 


THE  DA  T.  5 

In  response  to  this  circular  letter,  many  replies  were  received,  some  of  which  ap- 
pear in  the  appendix.  The  circular  was  also  published  in  all  of  the  local  newspapers 
and  many  others  in  different  sections  of  the  country,  and  every  effort  was  made  to 
reach  with  our  invitation  every  person  who  had  ever  been  a  member  of  the  school. 
That  some  one  whose  heart  was  warm  towards  Oastleton  might  not  receive  a  per- 
sonal invitation  to  this  celebration  was  our  greatest  fear  ;  that  some  did  not  is  our 
greatest  regret. 


THE    DAY. 


Fairer  day  never  dawned  than  August  10, 1887.  Of  all  the  days  of  the  century 
it  seemed  the  crown.  Nature  outdid  herself  and  gave  in  August  the  beauty  and 
freshness  of  June.  Oastleton  had  prepared  herself  for  this  jubilee.  Even  the  streets, 
with  the  overhanging  branches  of  the  stately  trees,  were  swept  and  garnished. 
National  flags  and  banners  and  mottoes  were  everywhere.  Private  houses  and  places 
of  business  were  bright  with  color.  The  school  buildings,  renewed  and  gay  with 
bunting,  and  the  grounds,  ornamented  with  arches  and  wreaths  of  evergreen,  made  a 
picture  never  seen  before. 

The  village  had  dressed  itself  for  a  gala  day.  For  several  days  families  had 
been  welcoming  specially  invited  friends  and  as  the  day  drew  near  and  upon  the  day 
itself  crowds  of  people  came  by  every  train.  The  entertainment  committee,  how- 
ever, had  done  its  work  so  well  that  every  comer  found  not  only  shelter  but 
home  and  friends.  The  Seminary  Park  was  the  meeting  ground.  A  book  had  been 
prepared  for  a  register  and  during  the  morning  hundreds  entered  their  names  and 
were  given  badges.  At  half  past  cen  a  procession  was  formed  under  the  direction  of 
Oapt.  A.  E.  Leavenworth,  the  marshal,  and  marched  to  the  Oongregational  church 
which  was  soon  filled  to  its  utmost  capacity.  The  walls  of  the  old  chm-ch  had  been  hung 
with  the  names  of  principals  and  the  place  was  beautiful  with  evergreen  and  golden 
rod— the  flowers  of  the  later  Summer — and  memories.  Upon  the  platform  were 
seated  former  teachers,  the  oldest  people,  the  trustees,  invited  guests,  the  ofiBcers 
and  speakers  of  the  day.  The  executive  committee  had  selected  the  Kev.  George 
N.  Boardman,  D.  D.,  of  Ohicago  to  preside  over  the  public  exercises  and  at  11 
o'clock  he  called  the  meeting  to  order.  The  choir  sang  a  song  of  welcome,  and 
prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  F.  W.  Olmstead  of  Bridport.  The  other  exercises  at 
the  church  followed  in  their  proper  order. 


CITIZENS'    WELCOME, 


BY   THE    HON.   J.   B.    BROMLEY. 


Teachers  and  Pupils  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  Castleton  Seminary, 
and  Castleton  State  Normal  School: 

Although  never  having  been  in  any  way  connected  with  this  time-honored  insti- 
tution, except  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  corporation,  I  have  been  called  upon  to 
address  to  you  a  few  words  of  welcome.  At  the  close  of  a  century  of  continuous 
work  by  this  school  (the  oldest  in  the  State),  it  was  thought  that  we  could  in  no 
more  appropriate  manner  celebrate  the  close  of  its  first  one  hundred  years  than  by 
inviting  you  all  to  come  to  Castleton,  the  home  of  your  alma  mater,  here  to  renew 
old  memories,  scenes  and  acquaintances,  to  talk  over  the  events  of  school  days,  and 
once  more  to  grasp  the  hands  of  teachers,  schoolmates  and  friends,  and  for  one  day 
at  least,  lay  aside  cares,  anxieties  and  business,  and  give  yourselves  up  to  the  en- 
joyment of  the  society  of  the  friends  of  days  lang  syne.  Those  scenes,  incidents, 
trials,  pleasures,  vicissitudes  and  fortunes  of  school  life  are  now  fresh  and  vivid  in 
your  minds.  All  the  minutia  and  details  can  be  related  with  absolute  correctness, 
while  the  impressions  of  more  recent  events,  to  some  of  us  at  least,  are  but  moment- 
ary and  fade  with  our  declining  years.  Perhaps  the  century  whose  close  we  this 
day  celebrate  is  the  most  wonderful  in  the  history  of  the  world  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  sciences,  in  the  advancement  of  education,  new  discoveries,  inventions 
and  progress  ;  and  the  subjects,  branches  of  education,  and  course  of  study  now 
required  to  be  taught  in  our  schools  had  small  place  in  the  imagination  even,  of  the 
teachers  of  one  hundred  years  ago. 

The  sturdy  settlers  of  Vermont  were  quick  to  discover  the  importance  of 
schools,  and  next  after  a  place  of  worship,  provisions  were  made  for  the  education 
of  the  children.  They  soon,  however,  saw  the  necessity  of  more  extended  learn- 
ing and  knowledge  of  the  higher  branches  of  education  than  could  be  obtained  in 
the  district  schools  of  that  day,  and  to  that  end  application  was  made  to  the  Legis- 
lature of  the  then  independent  State  of  Vermont  and  in  1787,  four  years  before  she 
was  admitted  into  the  Union,  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School  was  incor- 
porated. However,  it  is  not  my  place  to  give  you  a  history  of  this  dear  old  institu- 
tion and  its  great  and  glorious  work,  but  in  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  Castleton  and 
vicinity  to  bid  you  welcome.  Therefore,  we  heartily  welcome  you  all  to  Castleton, 
to  our  homes,  to  the  old  Seminary,  to  the  scenes  of  your  early  life  and  ambitions, 
and  while  you  are  in  Castleton  during  this  reunion,  *'  Make  yourselves  at  home." 


TRUSTEES'   AA^ELCOME 


BY   HON.    A.   N.   ADAMS,    OF   FAIR   HAVEN",    PRESIDENT. 


Mr,  President y  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Alumni  : 

It  is  my  pleasant  duty,  in  behalf  of  the  Trustees  of  the  State  Normal  School, 
to  extend  to  you  a  hearty  and  cordial  welcome  on  this  occasion. 

To  you  who  have  come  up  hither,  after  so  many  years,  from  out  the  long  array 
of  those  who  have  gone  forth  from  this  seat  of  learning,  carrying  with  you  into 
other  States  the  benign  influences  of  your  life  and  culture  here — to  you  we  say,  we 
bid  you  welcome ;  welcome  to  our  hearts  and  homes,  to  Castleton  and  the  old  Sem- 
inary, to  scenes  made  dear  to  you  by  early  associations  and  friendships,  and  to  the 
pleasant  remembrances,  greetings  and  joys  of  this  day  and  occasion.  We  wish  it  to 
be  to  you  a  happy  day.  We  have  no  city,  but  we  may  confer  upon  you  the  freedom 
of  our  State,  our  grand  and  noble  old  Green  Mountain  State^  wherein  we  deem  it  a 
pleasure  and  privilege  to  have  been  born  and  to  dwell. 

While  we  Join  with  you  in  recalling  and  commemorating  the  pleasant  scenes  of 
by-gone  years,  we  ask  that  you  join  with  us  in  our  work  and  interest  in  the  present, 
and  in  our  faith  and  hopes  for  the  future. 

We  recognize  the  greatness  of  the  duty  laid  upon  us  and  of  the  opportunity 
which  is  open  before  us.  Our  wish  is  that  your  presence  here  and  your  interest  in 
our  behalf,  may  inspire  and  help  us  in  our  work,  and  prove,  at  the  same  time,  a 
pleasure  and  joy  to  you,  and  an  occasion  which  you  will  long  delight  to  remember. 


Response  to  the  Addresses  of  Welcome, 


BY   THE   REV.    GEORGE   N.   BOARDMAN,   D.   D.,  OP   CHICAGO,    ILL. 


In  the  name  of  the  former  pupils  of  this  Seminary,  and  on  their  behalf,  I  thank 
you.  Sir,  for  the  proffered  hospitalities  of  the  citizens  of  Castleton.  These  houses 
have  been  before  opened  to  those  who  are  gathered  here  to-day.  The  good  people 
of  this  town  have  ever  been  friendly  to  the  Seminary  and  have  contributed  much  to 
its  prosperity.  They  have  honored  its  teachers,  they  have  cheered  its  pupils,  they 
have  gathered  with  pleasure,  and  in  thronging  numbers,  to  attend  its  public  exer- 


8  EESPONSE  TO  2 HE  ADDRESSES  OF  WELCOME. 

cises  and  to  mark  the  progress  of  those  here  pursuing  their  course  of  education. 
And  I  thank  the  honored  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  welcome  he 
gives  us  to  these  halls,  so  dear  to  memory.  It  gives  us  joy  to  know  that  our  alma 
mater  has  a  warm  heart  and  an  open  house  on  her  hundredth  birthday. 

*'  Little  of  all  we  value  here, 

•'Wakes  on  the  morn  of  its  hundredth  year  ;  " 

But  while  men  die,  institutions  live,  and  ours,  we  are  glad  to  know,  preserves  her 
youth  amid  accumulating  years — her  eye  not  dim,  her  force  not  abated.  We  have 
come  up  hither  to  congratulate  her  on  the  grace  with  which  she  bears  her  age  and 
on  the  kindly  providences  which  have  protected  her  while  others  have  fallen. 

Fellow  pupils  of  the  Seminary,  we  have  met  to-day  to  recall  the  memories  of 
the  past  and  to  recount  the  experiences  of  life  since  we  parted  long  years  ago,  since 
we  turned  each  his  appointed  way  to  encounter  the  rougher  and  more  sober  realities 
of  an  earthly  existence.  We  have  come  to  renew  acquaintance  and  friendship  and 
to  cheer  each  other  for  a  new  start  in  this  earthly  pilgrimage.  We  have  come  to 
speak  a  word  of  affection  and  sorrow  over  those  who  cannot  meet  us,  having  been 
called  to  enter  that  land  '*from  whose  bourne  no  traveler  returns.*'  We  have  come 
back  to  these  scenes  of  early  youth  that  early  sentiments  may  be  revived  and  that 
we  may  live  over,  for  a  few  hours  at  least,  the  dreams  with  which  we  first  looked 
oat  upon  the  world.  There  is  one  point  in  life  when  dreams  seem  in  place,  when 
imaginings  go  for  realities.  It  is  when  childhood  is  just  behind  us,  when  all  the 
work  of  life  is  before  us,  when  we  become  aware  that  the  world  of  science  is  all  un- 
known nad  the  world  of  action  is  simply  a  scene  of  possibilities ;  then  our  hopes 
seem  realities  and  opportunities  seem  success.  It  is  then  that  things  seem  large 
and  we  feel  ourselves  to  be  amid  the  wonders  of  creation.  Let  us  re-awaken  these 
sentiments  to-day,  and  God  forbid  that  we  should  ever  despise  them.  I  would  that 
my  feelings  when  I  was  eleven  years  of  age  could  rise  up  with  their  old  vividness. 
I  have  seen  some  of  the  imposing  architectural  structures  of  the  world,  but  none 
that  impressed  me  so  powerfully  as  Oastleton  Seminary  when  I  first  caught  sight  of 
it  while  passing  along  this  main  street.  Since  that  time  I  have  looked  up  into  the 
dome  of  St.  Peter's,  but  not  with  such  awe  as  that  which  overwhelmed  me  when  I 
first  climbed  those  front  steps  and  stood  beside  the  bell  rope  that  used  to  hang  be- 
tween the  pillars  of  that  portico.  And  let  us  not  forget  the  terrors  that  beset  us 
in  those  times,  greatly  to  our  good,  no  doubt,  like  that  which  almost  took  away  my 
breath  when  I  stood  nearly  where  I  now  am  and  "  spoke  my  exhibition  piece"  before 
a  crowded  house ;  nor  let  us  undervalue  the  commendations  of  those  days,  worth 
more  than  the  flattering  words  of  later  years,  like  that  bestowed  upon  me  by 
my  father's  revered  friend,  Mr.  Palmer,  when  he  assured  me  he  could  hear  every 
word. 

But  our  dreams  must  be  mingled  with  realities.  If  we  have  come  hither  to 
wake  again  the  long  dormant  past  we  have  come  also  to  lay  beside  them  the  achieve- 
ments of  life's  labors.  We  have  come  to  compare  what  we  are  with  what  we  hoped 
to  be.  Some  of  us  are  gray  and  age  has  set  its  mark  upon  us  ;  for  some  of  us  the 
sun  has  passed  its  zenith  and  is  sinking  in  the  west.  We  have  come  to  compare  the 
rising  with  the  setting  sun,  and  to  ask  ourselves  whether  the  richer  and  mellower 
beams  of  the  closing  day  are  a  compensation  for  the  unflecked  brilliancy  of  the 
morning.  If  the  radiance  of  the  dayspring  has  been  dimmed  by  the  smoke  of  the 
battle,  may  it  be  true  of  us  all  that  the  light  of  the  evening  mingles  itself  with  the 
softer  light  of  worlds  beyond. 


LIBRARY 
OF  THE 


CENTENNIAL  ADDRESS.  9 

Only  one  word  more  :  We  come  together  to-day  to  hail  the  second  century  of 
our  alma  mater* s  life.  We  charge  you,  under  whose  care  she  has  now  fallen,  to  see 
to  it  that  her  future  is  even  more  glorious  than  the  past.  May  she  be  an  honored 
benefactor  of  this  commonwealth  so  long  as  time  shall  last.  And  we  extend  our 
welcome  to  the  pupils  to  be  gathered  here  in  the  years  to  come.  We  send  them 
our  greeting  as  year  after  year  and  decade  after  decade  they  come  to  take  the  seats 
which  we  have  left  vacant.  And  when  the  second  centennial  shall  be  celebrated, 
may  they  remember  us  as  kindly  as  we  remember  those  whose  names  adorn  these 
walls  to-day. 


CENTENNIAL   ADDRESS, 


BY  THE   HO^ST.   JOHiq"   I.    GILBERT,    OF   MALOI^[E,    N.    Y. 


Since  entering  the  church,  I  have  been  informed  that  nearly  every  one  present 
has  been  at  some  time  a  pupil  of  this  institution,  and  that  one  person  was  a  pupil 
seventy-two  years  ago.  As  for  myself,  I  came  with  five  or  six  older  brothers  and 
sisters,  and,  being  a  mere  boy,  was  thrown  in  as  a  sort  of  supernumerary. 

I  do  not  forget  that  you  have  already  listened  to  three  good  addresses,  hence  I 
shall  be  brief  and  do  little  more  than  glance  at  the  retrospect  of  one  hundred  years. 

Here,  in  this  country,  one  hundred  years  is  a  long  time.  It  carries  us  back 
beyond  almost  everything  that  is  familiar  to  us  now.  During  that  period,  nearly 
everything  that  is  changeable  has  changed  ;  our  dwellings,  our  clothing,  our  im- 
plements of  industry  on  the  farm,  in  the  shop,  in  the  factory,  in  the  mines.  Com- 
mercial life  has  taken  on  new  forms  and  methods,  and  it  deals  with  new  commodi- 
ties.    The  entire  outward  aspect  of  life  has  undergone  a  complete  transformation. 

Political  conditions  have  changed.  In  1787  Vermont  was  not  yet  a  part  of  the 
United  States  ;  she  was  an  independent  nation,  but  she  showed  that  she  could  fight 
and  build  schools. 

The  Eepublic  itself  had  not  then  begun  to  be,  under  its  matured,  national  form 
of  existence.  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  a  proposition,  not  an  accom- 
plished fact.  Within  this  period  falls  the  election  of  Washington  as  President  of 
the  United  States.  In  1787  Napoleon  Bonaparte  was  an  obscure  second  lieutenant 
in  the  French  army.  All  that  marvelous,  kaleidoscopic  succession  of  French  king- 
doms, republics  and  empires,  when  the  man  of  genius  began  to  be  the  man  of  des- 
tiny, had  not  then  passed  before  the  astonished  gaze  of  mankind. 

During  this  period  the  map  of  the  world  has  been  recast.  Every  continent  has 
felt  the  touch  of  change.  Our  own  country  was  then  a  narrow  strip  of  civilization 
along  the  Alantic  coast,  bounded  on  the  north  by  Canada,  on  the  south  by  Florida, 
and  on  the  west  by  an  interrogation  point.  While  it  was  believed  to  extend  to  the 
Pacific  Ocean,  in  fact  it  did  not  cross  the  Mississippi,  the  regions  beyond  being  still 
claimed  by  France. 

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10  CENTENNIAL  ADBMESS. 

Nearly  all  the  political  lines  in  Europe  have  been  changed.  Nations  have  sunk 
below  the  horizon,  while  others  have  risen  above  ifc. 

One  hundred  years  ago  the  German  Empire  was  not.  Italy,  as  a  united  nation, 
was  not.  Poor  Greece,  to  whom  we  owe  so  much,  was  an  abject  slave  at  the  feet  of 
the  Turk.  European  enterprise  and  greed  and  ambition  and  genius  have  startled 
Asia  from  the  slumber  of  ages,  while  the  "  Dark  Continent "  has  been  brought  to 
light  by  the  noble  spirit  of  divinely  inspired  philanthropy.  The  sea  has  opposed  no 
barriers  to  the  spirit  of  change ;  the  islands  have  yielded  to  the  new  transforma- 
tions. 

One  hundred  years  ago,  how  little  the  world  knew  about  itself.  How  little  the 
different  peoples  of  the  earth  knew  about  each  other.  How  little  any  of  them  knew 
about  the  earth  they  lived  on.  How  little  mastery  they  had  over  its  forces.  How 
little  they  knew  of  the  multitudinous  servants  that  were  ready  to  do  their  bidding 
on  land  and  sea.  How  slow  and  toilsome  were  the  processes  by  which  results  were 
brought  to  pass. 

But  among  all  the  discoveries  and  developments  of  the  century,  it  has  not  been 
found  that  any  force  is  comparable  with  that  of  free,  rational  spirit.  It  is  as  true 
as  ever  that  wisdom  is  the  principal  thing,  and  the  logic  which  adds  '^  therefore 
get  wisdom"  is  as  good  as  ever.  Kothing  has  disturbed  the  old  answer  to  the  old 
question,  "  What  shall  a  man  give  in  exchange  for  his  soul  ?"  It  is  the  changeable 
that  has  changed  ;  the  human  mind  with  its  sovereign  capacities  and  urgent  needs, 
is  now  as  it  was  then.  And  hence  you  need  offer  no  apology  for  celebrating  with 
every  demonstration  of  interest  and  joy  the  founding  of  a  Grammar  School  among 
the  scattered  but  growing  population  of  the  County  of  Rutland,  under  the  corporate 
authority  of  the  glorious  little  Commonwealth  of  Vermont. 

"When  I  received  the  invitation  to  join  with  you  in  this  celebration,  I  confess  I 
was  surprised  to  learn  of  the  antiquity  of  this  School,  (speaking  after  the  manner  of 
Americans,)  and  of  the  changes  through  which  it  had  passed, — naming  itself  at 
different  times  after  the  County,  the  State,  the  Town,  and  back  again  to  the  State  ; 
Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  Vermont  Classical  High  School,  Castleton  Sem- 
inary, and  State  Normal  School.  It  has  been  all  these, — and.  more.  In  a  peculiar 
degree  it  has  belonged  to  Castleton,  and  yet  it  was  by  and  for  Rutland  County  and 
the  State  of  Vermont,  while  at  the  same  time  its  pupils  were  drawn  from  every 
State  and  from  Canada,  and  from  this  school  they  have  gone  out  to  nearly  every 
State  and  Territory,  and  to  many  lands  beyond  the  sea  ;  "  their  line  is  gone  out 
through  all  the  earth." 

As  to  the  manner  of  its  starting,  my  chief  information  is  derived  from  the  ex- 
cellent address  delivered  *here  at  the  anniversary  in  1870.  To  that  and  such  other 
sources  of  information  as  are  more  accessible  and  familiar  to  you  than  to  me,  I 
must  refer  you,  simply  saying  that  from  that  address  it  appears  that  its  origin  was 
similar  to  that  of  many  others  in  other  States,  especially  New  England.  The  peo- 
ple felt  that  they  needed  and  must  have  something  above  that  which  common 
schools  could  furnish,  and  in  preparation  for  the  college  course. 

Colleges  were  then  few  in  number,  and  the  common  schools  were  narrow  in 
their  range.  This  school  stands  and  has  long  stood  midway  between  the  common 
school  and  the  college  or  learned  profession.  The  student  of  the  college  and  the 
teacher  of  the  common  school  both  came  from  here. 

*Hon.  Henry  Clark. 


CENTENNIAL  ADDRESS.  11 

So,  no  matter  by  what  name  we  call  this  institution,  it  has  always  been  a  step- 
ping stone  to  those  who  wished  to  go  higher,  and  a  finishing  school  to  those  who 
wished  to  enter  at  once  upon  practical  life.  It  now  prepares  pupils  for  a  profes- 
sional course,  and  deservedly  takes  high  rank  in  that  special  field. 

The  necessity  for  grammar  schools  seems  to  have  been  recognized  from  the 
earliest  days  of  colonial  existence.  Livingstone  says  that  without  good  grammar 
schools,  colleges  will  be  "  thin  and  unprosperous."  He  recommended  the  passage 
of  an  act  providing  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  two  grammar  schools 
in  each  county,  to  be  under  the  management  of  the  county  and  a  county  charge. 
Nevertheless,  these  schools  were  for  the  most  part,  I  believe,  left  to  support  them- 
selves. The  colony,  or  the  State,  often  aided  them,  but,  so  far  as  I  know,  never 
undertook  to  support  them.  Though  fully  impressed  with  the  necessity  of  higher 
education,  the  fathers  seem  to  have  adopted  the  theory  that  it  was  not  right,  or  at 
least  not  wise,  to  tax  the  people  at  large  for  education  beyond  the  rudimentary  studies. 
And  so  the  Kutland  County  Grammar  School  was  created  a  legal  entity,  and  then 
left  to  itself.  Well,  I  imagine  that  with  it,  as  with  the  individual,  the  very  effort 
to  thrive  added  to  its  thrift. 

Many  and  great  have  been  the  changes  in  educational  methods  within  a  hun- 
dred years.  But  it  is  not  certain  that  all  changes  are  improvements.  Taylor  Lewis 
says  that  the  first  sentence  he  read  in  school,  was  ^'  Man  may  not  put  by  the  law  of 
God."  It  has  been  said  that  children  cannot  understand  such  gravity.  But  they 
do  understand  it.  They  were  born  to  understand  it.  They  recognize  it  as  their 
own  father's  voice.  It  was  far  better  than  to  begin  by  reading,  '*  The  cow  is  in  the 
barn." 

The  recent  system  of  education  seems  to  be  upon  the  right  track  ;  it  considers 
what  are  the  faculties  of  man,  and  what  is  the  order  of  their  development,  so  that 
it  can  appeal  to  those  faculties  intelligently.  But  it  has  as  yet  investigated  chiefly 
the  understanding  of  man — only  the  intellectual  faculties.  The  education  of  the 
future  will  carry  a  similar  investigation  up  through  man's  higher  nature,— consid- 
ering what  are  his  reason  and  his  spiritual  faculties  ;  how  these  develop  and  in  what 
manner  they  can  be  best  appealed  to. 

In  the  old  times,  schools  to  some  extent  and  colleges  certainly  had  in  view  the 
training  up  of  a  body  of  religious  teachers ;  now  they  have  in  view  the  fitting  of  per- 
sons to  earn  their  living  and  to  succeed  in  business  or  a  profession  :  the  latter  looks 
to  this  world  ;  the  former,  to  the  world  to  come. 

The  ideal  way  is  to  look  to  both,— subordinately  to  that  which  is  subordinate, 
supremely  to  that  which  is  supreme. 

There  has  been  a  long  protest  in  recent  years  against  sectarian  schools,  and  it 
has  gone  so  far  as  to  exclude  religious  instruction.  This  is  all  wrong.  It  is  not 
necessary  to  teach  controverted  points  of  doctrine,  in  order  to  teach  religion  and 
morality.  The  Sermon  on  the  Mount  is  not  sectarian  ;  the  Ten  Commandments  are 
not  sectarian  ;  the  119th  Psalm  is  not  sectarian. 

There  is  a  broad  area  of  common  religious  ground  which  can  be  and  ought  to 
be  taken  into  the  curriculum  of  all  public  instruction.  I  would  accord  full  liberty 
to  all  comers,  but  I  believe  that  this  continent  was  given  by  God  for  working  out 
higher  problems  of  human  existence  than  the  older  countries  had  proved  equal  to. 
For  my  part,  I  will  never  consent  to  its  being  given  over  to  a  godless  education. 


12  CENTENNIAL  ADDRESS, 

This  is  a  Christian  country  and  the  education  of  its  people  should  be  radically  and 
broadly  Christian.  It  should  be  neither  heathen  on  the  one  hand  nor  denomina- 
tional on  the  other. 

Our  fathers  had  few  books ;  we  have  a  multitude  of  them.  There  are  some 
advantages  in  both  conditions.  If  we  can  command  our  thoughts  and  concentrate 
them  upon  a  purpose,  and  at  the  same  time  take  in  the  ever  widening  field  of 
science  and  discovery,  we  shall  profit  by  increased  opportunities.  We  must  learn  to 
be  discursive  without  being  superficial ;  to  expatiate  with  the  free  step  of  the  intel- 
lect, and  none  the  less  to  concentrate  our  mental  energy.  It  is  not  the  quantity  so 
much  as  the  quality  of  learning  which  proves  most  helpful.  We  do  not  want  in- 
formation at  the  expense  of  power.  The  object  of  study  and  discipline  is  to  develop 
the  man  and  to  set  him  in  right  relations  to  his  present  and  to  his  prospective 
environments.  Education  is  to  clear  the  mind,  to  give  it  free  vision,  and,  best  of 
all,  true  vision. 

Make  the  school  a  place  for  patient,  modest,  earnest,  candid  search  for  the 
truth.  To  get  at  the  simple  truth — that  is  the  thing  of  first  importance — not  to 
become  adept  in  controversy,  not  to  set  up  or  pull  down  theories,  but  to  find  and  to 
embrace  the  truth,  for  that  alone  is  real  education  and  that  alone  will  stand.  Here 
we  may  find  the  first  conception  of  those  often  abused  words — liberality,  and  large- 
ness of  view. 

Some  people  think  these  consist  in  regarding  one  thing  as  about  as  true  as 
another.     But  that  is  narrowness  and  weakness. 

Is  liberality  wanted  ?  It  is  the  truth  that  makes  men  free.  Do  you  want 
largeness  ?    To  the  truth  belongs  the  largeness  of  the  universe.  ^ 

In  these  later  days,  and  especially  in  politics,  we  have  a  great  deal  said  about 
reform.  There  is  always  need  of  it ;  it  began  none  too  soon,  and  will  go  none  too 
far.  But  there  is  something  better  than  reforming,  and  that  is  forming.  Let  there 
be  more  care  in  forming,  and  then  there  will  be  less  need  of  reforming.  How 
potent  a  factor  in  the  forming  of  character  a  school  like  this  may  be.  The  students 
are  old  enough  to  understand  great  thoughts  and  complex  subjects,  and  young, 
impressible  and  unspoiled  enough  to  respond  readily  to  a  noble  suggestion,  and  unsel- 
fish outlook  upon  the  world.  And  when  the  characters  of  men  are  rightly  formed, 
all  problems  are  solved.  The  labor  question,  the  tariff,  civil  service — all  phases  of 
political  economy  will  become  clear  and  intelligible  to  right-minded  men. 

Ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the  alumni,  it  is  quite  possible  that  nearly  all  of  you 
are  more  familiar  with  the  events  of  school  life  in  Castleton  than  I  am,  as  the  time 
of  my  attendance  here  was  but  short.  I  will  not  attempt  to  entertain  you  with 
reminiscences.  But  I  cannot  forbear  to  express  on  this  occasion  my  gratitude  to 
Mrs.  Winchester,  who,  many  years  ago,  aided,  with  great  skill  and  kindness,  my 
first  studies  in  Latin. 

Doubtless  many  present  have  in  mind  some  similar  favor  from  teachers  either 
present  or  now  gone. 

How  shall  we  best  act  out  our  gratitude  to  this  institution,  and  do  something 
to  make  it  glorious  ?  How  shall  we  make  the  past  best  subserve  the  present  ?  Let 
us  take  the  torch  held  out  to  us  by  loving  hands  in  years  gone  by,  and  pass  it  on  to 
the  years  to  come,  with  an  even  larger,  clearer  flame.  Let  us  so  deal  with  every 
man  and  woman  whom  we  meet,  as  to  promote  the  best  and  highest  and  most  endur- 
ing welfare  of  each.     We  stand  on  a  mount  of  vision.     We  are  looking  both  ways. 


CENTENNIAL  ADDEESS.  13 

What  shall  be  the  education  of  the  future  ?  The  answer  to  this,  when  it  comes, 
will  also  give  an  answer  to  all  the  civil,  political  and  social  problems  which  have 
arisen,  and  which  will  never  cease  to  arise,  until  they  are  settled  according  to  the 
eternal  fitness  and  law  of  things. 

But,  my  friends,  I  feel  how  poor  are  any  words  of  mine.  This  occasion  cele- 
brates itself.  Nothing  that  can  be  said  speaks  so  eloquently  as  that  which  can  be 
seen.  The  procession  upon  your  streets  today  is  the  best  celebration.  It  testifies 
as  hardly  anything  else  could,  to  the  estimate  that  is  put  upon  education — upon 
schools — upon  the  foundation  and  the  founders  of  schools.  As  I  saw  it  pass— a  long 
line  of  educated  men  and  women,  some  of  them  distinguished  in  all  the  walks  of 
life,  some  old  and  gray,  some  leaning  on  staffs,  some  in  the  vigor  of  young  life,  I 
said  to  myself,  what  if  the  founders  of  this  school  could  look  down  upon  this  scene 
today,  and  see  whereunto  this  work  of  theirs,  so  modest  in  its  apparent  proportions, 
has  grown  ?  But  the  procession  seen  here  is  small  compared  to  the  invisible  one 
which  marches  upon  the  shadowy  shore. 

While  nearly  everything  grows  small  as  it  recedes  into  the  past,  some  things 
grow  large.  The  founding  of  an  institution  is  one.  I  congratulate  the  descendants 
of  the  founders  who  were  impelled  by  so  noble  an  impulse  to  do  a  work  of  such 
beneficent  results.  I  congratulate  the  trustees  of  the  institution,  past  and  present, 
upon  their  wise  and  patient  and  public  spirited  service.  It  rises  from  all  hearts  to 
thank  and  congratulate  the  teachers,  living  and  dead,  whose  names  not  only  hang 
upon  the  walls  today,  but  are  written  upon  the  tablets  of  our  memories.  I  con- 
gratulate the  pupils  who  have  converted  the  teachings  received  here  into  power  for 
good  throughout  the  world.  We  send  joyous  greetings  to  the  thousand  upon  thou- 
sand homes  blessed  l)y  this  school  directly  and  indirectly. 

Now  let  us  hope  and  adapt  our  action  to  the  hope,  that  all  which  was  best  in 
the  life  of  this  institution  in  the  first  century  of  its  existence,  will  be  garnered  up 
and  made  to  bring  forth  fruit  a  hundred  fold  in  the  generations  that  are  to  come. 


POEM. 


BY   MISS   EMILY  Q.    ALDEIST. 

{Read  hy  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Sheldon.) 

A  poem  requested  !     'Tis  easy  said — 
But  rhymes  don't  sing  in  a  poet's  head 
As  anthems  surge  on  an  organ  swell 
When  grand  oratorio  casts  its  spell 
On  the  waiting  ear  of  an  august  queen — 
In  Westminster,  so  lately  seen. 

As  glide  from  their  ''ways"  the  launching  ships, 
So  pregnant  hour  is  the  hour  that  slips, 
Before  the  stroke  of  a  poet's  pen 
Can  justify  w^ays  of  God  to  men. 

Then  teach  the  birds  of  a  hundred  spheres. 
To  warble  this  tale  of  a  hundred  years. 
(But  birds,  though  dainty,  are  not  divine — 
Of  moral  values  they  give  no  sign.) 

Then  gather  gems  from  a  hundred  mines, 
To  dash  their  brilliance  along  the  lines, 
Which  tell  the  tale  of  the  moral  braves, 
Who  sleep  in  more  than  a  hundred  graves  ; 
W^hile  Ave,  who  are  living,  their  deeds  relate. 
Because  of  their  patience  to  work  and  wait. 
(But  diamonds  glisten  and  never  speak, 
While  words  are  jewels  to  those  who  seek 
The  hidden  meaning   to  quarry  out 
Of  softest  whisper  or  strident  shout.) 

Then  cull  the  blooms  from  a  hundred  zones, 
To  paint  the  story  in  color  tones. 
Invite  the  daisies  on  tombs  we  pass. 
To  murmur  requiems  in  the  grass 
For  buried  heroes  who  never  knew 
Inheritance  they  bequeathed  to  you. 
(But  flowers  will  wither  and  droop  and  die 
E'en  under  reproach  of  a  lover's  eye, 
Before  their  secrets  are  half  revealed, 
Or  the  flush  is  fled  from  the  clover-field.) 

Then  cluster  gleams  of  a  hundred  stars. 

Of  Saturn's  rings,  or  of  ruby  Mars  ; 

Or  clang  the  bells  from  a  hundred  spires  ; 


POEM.  15 


Or  catch  the  flashes  from  beacon  fires  ; 
Or  coax  the  breakers  which  foam  the  shore, 
To  lend  the  chant  of  their  rythmic  roar  ; 
Or  challenge  Eecording  AngeFs  tears, 
To  make  the  rhyme  of  this  hundred  years. 

But  all  in  yain  !  for  a  trenchant  word 
Outsings  the  carol  of  any  bird  ; 
Outscintillates  dazzle  of  brightest  gem, 
Tho'  placed  in  a  royal  garment's  hem ; 
Is  sweeter  far  than  a  flower's  perfume, 
Tho'  tossed  from  a  tuft  of  India's  bloom  ; 
Outrides  the  planet  of  swiftest  course  ; 
Outvies  the  bells  in  their  crude  resource  ; 
"Will  warm  more  hearts  than  the  beacon's  flame, 
And  hush  the  tempest  to  sleep  for  shame ; 
Will  melt  more  wills  than  a  seraph's  tears 
While  breathing  the  ode  of  a  hundred  years. 

A  hundred  years  !    So  that's  the  date 
Which  causes  this  pageant  of  higher  state 
Than  any  which  marks  the  rule  of  kings. 
Or  triumph  that  stalwart  victor  brings. 
Who  aimeth  not  at  the  noblest  things. 
Beneath  the  rush  of  Heavenly  wings. 

A  hundred  years  !  in  this  pillared  shade 

So  long  ago— a  stone  was  laid 

From  whose  foundation  a  temple  rose, 

Assuming  proud,  imperial  pose. 

Because  a  temple  to  learning  reared. 

The  goddess  of  which  the  Greeks  revered, 

From  which  sweet  time  bright  throngs  of  youth — 

How  many  ?  who  knows  ?  not  I  forsooth  ! 

Have  trodden  these  paths  and  walked  these  halls, 

Have  learned  brave  lessons  within  these  walls, 

Have  measured  the  line  of  life  since  then, 

As  graceful  women  and  polished  men  ; 

While  Oastleton  school  deserves  the  praise 

In  even  more  than  a  hundred  ways  : 

So  now  salute  the  dear  old  Sem 

As  trump  of  the  game,  at  least,  pro  tem. 

Five  years  of  the  hundred,  a  woman's  rule 
Was  the  Golden  Rose  of  this  old-time  school ; 
With  her  keen  blue  eye  and  flaxen  hair. 
With  her  clean-cut  speech  and  a  smile  so  rare 
It  drifted  sunshine  everywhere  ; 
Her  presence  always  so  debonair 
As  she  won  with  ease  the  hearts  of  boys, 
For  all  their  rough  and  shrewd  decoys, 


16  POEM. 


Made  friends  as  well  of  the  genus  girl, 
With  her  fervid  love  and  her  tossing  curl ; 
Till  now,  in  her  dreams  of  those  bonny  years, 
The  tones  of  those  boys  and  girls  she  hears. 
And  tells  me  oft,  in  these  later  nights, 
The  vision  of  Oastleton's  old  delights  ! 

Bless  God  for  the  charm  of  a  feminine  touch, 

For  the  world  has  been  redeemed  by  such  ; 

As  women  to  ruggedest  hearts  hold  keys, 

Madonnas  of  stately  homes  like  these  ! 

'Tis  little  to  render,  this  flying  phrase, 

To  blithest  of  Oastleton's  halcyon  days  ; 

'Tis  little  to  ask  that  this  gracious  sway 

Be  allotted  one  leaf  of  emerald  bay ; 

Forgetting  not  others  who  merit  a  psalm, 

While  we  cast  at  their  feet  broad  branches  of  palm. 

Foot,  Walker  and  Hallock,  and  Knowlton — (not  Post, 

Time  fails  us  to  summon  the  illustrious  host, 

Who,  non-presidential,  gave  money  or  fame 

To  swell  this  high  prestige  of  ven'rable  name ;) 

While  Leavenworth  stands  sponsor  this  jubilee  hour 

For  present  possession  of  cumulose  power. 

Ah,  well  the  hundred  years  are  told 

That  would  be  marked  with  a  shaft  of  gold. 

If  rewards  were  meted  as  man  decrees. 

Or  deserts  did  audit  as  mortal  please. 

Not  so  !  that  wisdom  is  keener  far 

Which  knows  just  when  to  make  or  mar. 

An  aloe  blooms  in  a  hundred  years. 

And  in  that  leisure  there  appears 

No  hurry  of  pert  diviner's  rod — 

But  shapely  plan  of  a  sovereign  G-od  ! 

In  a  hundred  years  'twill  be  "all  the  same," 

So  shallow  thinkers  oft  declaim. 

Forgetting  meanwhile  the  aloe's  cost. 

By  a  century's  light  and  shade  embossed. 

And  so  as  the  years  in  cycles  pass. 
The  birds  still  chant  their  morning  mass  ; 
Stalactites  sparkle  in  darkened  caves. 
And  toilers  are  buried  in  obscure  graves. 
The  flowers  bloom  on  in  splendid  Junes 
And  the  stars  encore  their  spheric  tunes  \ 
While  bells  strike  forth  in  sonorous  chimes 
In  tall  cathedrals  of  foreign  climes  ; 
And  breakers  crown  their  clifls   of  jet 
With  rarer  pearls  than  e'er  were  set 
By  human  hand  in  regalia  yet — 


POEM.  IT 

Or  have  curved  a  ducal  coronefc ; 

While  beacons  flame  the  far  coast  line, 

With  most  beneficent  design  ; 

And  still  the  Recording  Angel's  tear 

Blots  the  riddle  of  mundane  sphere  ! 

Better  than  all,  the  poet's  word 

With  resonance  sweet,  if  rightly  heard, 

Tells  not  only  the  tale  of  years, 

Striking  its  balance  of  fools  and  seers. 

But  even  forecasts  diviner  gains 

Than  e'er  were  counted  on  eastern  plains 

During  the  hush  of  that  wondrous  morn. 

In  which  the  Monarch  of  Kings  was  born  ; 

For  naught  can  ever,  like  human  pen, 

Pay  fit  homage  to  deeds  of  men  ! 

As  action  broadens — its  poem  refines  : 

May  this  lay  of  more  than  a  hundred  lines, 

(Tho'  not  a  matter  of  facts  and  dates, 

]^or  record  of  personal  human  fates,) 

Serve  like  a  flutter  of  evening  air 

Which  wafts  to  court  a  penitent's  prayer, 

To  mark  this  day  with  a  pure  white  stone 

Engraven  with  name  of  the  Crucified  One, 

Which  hallows  for  us  this  festal  scene 

On  Castleton's  slope  of  living  green  ; 

Has  sanctified  names  at  christ'ning  font 

That  have  jeweled  the  'scutcheon  of  Old  Vermont  ! 


PRINCIPAL'S    GREETING, 


BY   ABEL   E.   LEAVEN^WORTH,   A     M. 


Ladies  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Alumni  of  the  venerable  institution  to   which  we 
would  do  honor  today : 

For  me  silence  would  seem  more  fitting  in  this  presence,  for  I  stand  at  the  foot 
of  a  worthy  line  of  faithful  workers  in  one  of  the  noblest  professions.  Yet  I  recog- 
nize that  mine  is  the  post  of  duty  as  well  as  of  honor,  for  I  count  it  an  honor  to 
stand  here  in  this  relation.  To  you,  my  friends,  my  greeting  is  most  cordial.  You 
have  been  worthily  welcomed  to  the  town  and  its  hospitality  by  others,  in  a  manner 
I  cannot  hope  to  equal.  But  as  the  guardian  of  the  buildings  and  grounds  that 
have  been  for  nearly  sixty  years  the  home  of  your  beloved  alma  mater y  I  bid  you 
welcome  to  them.  As  you  again,  after  the  lapse  of  many  years,  tread  these  classic 
halls,  I  bid  you  feel  at  home  and  to  revive  your  sense  of  ownership  therein. 

When  six  years  ago  I,  in  this  spot,  pledged  my  fealty  to  the  interests  of  this 
school,  it  was  to  me  a  solemn  vow,  and  I  have  endeavored  to  be  faithful  to  the  trust 
and  pledge.  I  desired  to  sustain  the  prestige  the  school  had  attained  under  my  able 
predecessors.  Some  of  you  may  have  sorrowed  that  Latin  and  Greek  and  the  mod- 
ern languages  are  no  longer  taught  here,  that  music  and  painting  no  longer  occupy 
a  front  seat  m  the  curriculum  of  study,  and  may  have  feared  that  a  decline  in  the 
spirit  and  thoroughness  of  the  culture  here  given  is  the  result.  Some,  no  doubt, 
have  remained  away  through  the  influence  of  this  feeling,  and  others  have  come  as 
to  the  grave  of  the  old  school  they  loved  and  were  nurtured  by. 

Dry  your  tears  of  mourning,  sorrowing  children  !  Your  alma  mater  lives  in 
the  freshness  and  vigor  of  j)erpetual  youth.  Children  and  youth  still  crowd  her 
portals  for  the  instruction  and  the  discipline  that  give  strength  to  battle  with  life's 
great  problem. 

October  15,  17S7,  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Vermont  chartered 
this  school  as  a  State  institution.  The  constitution  of  the  State  provides  for  a  uni- 
versity, grammar  school  in  each  county  and  one  or  more  common  schools  in  each 
town.  This  has  been  a  State  school  continuously  since,  receiving  State  aid  through 
its  grant  of  lands  and  in  later  years  by  direct  appropriations. 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  no  school  can  cover  all  the  field  of  training 
now  demanded  by  the  researches  and  advancement  in  all  lines  of  study.  It  is  also 
true  that  all  wisdom  and  sources  of  discipline  are  not  necessarily  wrapped  up  in  the 
Greek  and  Latin  tomes,  and  that  the  refinement  and  polish  that  the  schools  give 
are  not  always  acquired  only  by  those  who  have  struggled  with  the  French  verb,  or 
vainly  tried  to  excel  the  productions  of  nature  in  the  study  of  drawing  and  music. 

These  are  counted  of  no  less  importance  than  formerly,  but  ratlior  of  so  much 
greater  importance  that  special  schools  are  now  founded  for  better  instruction  in 
them.  This  costs  an  expenditure  of  money  and  the  employment  of  skilled  teachers 
entirely  beyond  the  reach  of  the  classical  school,  or  academy,  of  fifty  years  ago. 
Such  a  school  can  be  no  longer  sustained  by  tuition,  but  requires  large  endowments. 


PEIJSrCIFArS   GREETING.  19 

Ifc  is  also  an  open  question  whether  other  lines  of  study  do  not  give  equal  cul- 
ture and  discipline.  This  is  an  age  of  specialists.  No  person  can  cover  all  lines  of 
study,  nor  even  hope  to  master  the  possibilities  of  one  line.  In  recognition  of  this 
fact  our  Legislature  has  limited  the  work  of  this  school.  We  believe  that  this  has 
been  wisely  done  and  that  the  results  fully  attest  the  wisdom  of  the  action. 

The  Normal  schools  of  the  State  were  first  chartered  in  the  fall  of  1866  and 
went  into  operation  in  February,  1867.  This  school  was  for  some  time  shaded  by 
the  old  seminary  and  a  class  was  not  graduated  until  June,  1871.  Since  then  it  has 
graduated  228  in  the  first  course  and  55  in  the  second.  Most  of  them  have  taught 
from  one  to  five  years.  The  most  are  still  teaching  and  are  generally  successful, 
and  the  demand  for  teachers  trained  in  our  Normal  schools  is  increasing. 

In  conclusion  Mr.  Leavenworth  reminded  the  alumni  that  in  the  natural  course 
of  events  he  could  not  teach  many  years  longer.  He  could  not  foresee  what  his 
heirs  might  do  with  the  buildings  if  he  should  leave  them  as  his  estate.  It  will  be 
best  for  the  alumni  to  raise  an  ample  fund  for  putting  the  institution  upon  a  last- 
ing foundation  and  then  regain  it.  Tuitions  cannot  alone  be  depended  upon  for 
support,  and  no  individual  ought  to  be  the  chief  reliance  of  any  institution.  Now  is 
the  time  to  make  the  past  more  secure,  and  perpetuate  the  influence,  the  hallowed 
associations,  the  name  and  the  unrivaled  opportunity  of  this  famous  school. 

The  benediction  was  pronounced  by  the  Rev.  Henry  P.  Higley,  D.  D. 


Procession  Reformed. 

The  marshal  then  resumed  charge  of  the  vast  audience  and  in  a  very  few 
moments,  with  military  precision  and  strictness,  withdrew  the  multitude  from  the 
church  in  the  following  order  : 

1.  The  officers,  speakers,  former  teachers  and  others  occupying  the  platform. 

2.  The  pupils  who  were  in  attendance  previous  to  Mr.  Hallock's  principal- 
ship,  a  venerable  and  goodly  number. 

3.  Those  who  attended  during  Mr.  Hallock's  principalship,  over  one  hundred 
in  number. 

4.  Those  who  were  in  attendance  thereafter  up  to  and  including  Miss  Haskell's 
regime^  a  numerous  company. 

5.  Those  who  were  students  from  that  time  up  to  1881. 

6.  Those  who  had  been  students  under  the  present  principal. 

Preceded  by  the  band  in  this  order,  the  procession  returned  to  the  school  park, 
and,  when  the  head  of  the  line  turned  up  Seminary  street,  the  rear  end  had  not 
left  the  Church  common. 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 


Duriug  the  services  at  the  church  five  tables,  each  a  hundred  feet  in  length, 
had  been  bountifully  spread  at  the  foot  of  the  park ;  and  at  2  o'clock  the  returning 
procession  took  seats  at  the  tables  and  entered  upon  the  active  duties  of  the  hour. 
Upon  the  conclusion  of  the  material  feast  the  flow  of  soul  began  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Hon.  Charles  E.  Patterson,  who  had  been  selected  to  preside  over  these 
exercises.  No  attempt  is  made  here  to  reproduce  the  witty  and  graceful  words  of 
the  toastmaster  introducing  the  various  speakers.  They  are  the  spilled  wine  of 
the  feast  that  cannot  be  gathered  up. 


Introductory  Address. 


BY  HOK.    CHARLES  E.    PATTERSOK   OF  TROY,    I^.   Y. 


An  eminent  American  statesman,  who  had  his  birth  in  this  State  and  had 
attained  high  honors  in  others,  once  said  that  Vermont  is  a  good  place  to  emi- 
grate from.  If  by  this  he  meant  to  reflect  upon  Vermont  as  undesirable  to  be 
selected  for  a  dwelling  place,  you  that  are  before  me  will  take  issue  with  the 
sentiment.  But  if  the  idea  he  sought  to  convey  was  that  the  man,  who  has  had 
here  his  birth  and  training,  reaches  manhood  well  equipped  in  all  that  is  manly, 
to  go  forth  into  other  fields  to  reap  greater  harvests  than  a  stubborn  soil  may  yield 
at  home,  a  world  can  testify  to  its  truth.  I  know  that  all  good  New  Englanders 
are  as  fond  of  singing  their  own  praises  as  if  the  Blarney  Stone  were  located  in  the 
quarries  of  Eutland  County,  but  still  I  do  not  believe  in  that  too  great  modesty 
which  would  blind  one  to  his  own  mother's  beauties  and  virtues.  And  so  I  say 
every  good  Vermonter  has  a  right  not  only  to  feel  proud,  but  to  boast  of  the  strength 
and  valor,  inborn  from  his  native  soil,  the  possession  of  which  has  enabled  himself 
and  his  foster  brothers  to  gather  honors  abroad  as  well  as  at  home. 

We  meet  here  today  as  fellow  centenarians.  I  know  that  there  are  a  great 
many  young  people  of  uncertain  age  and  old  people  of  uncertain  youth,  who  will 
feel  a  diffidence  in  acknowledging  that  they  were  here  at  the  laying  of  the  corner 
stone  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  one  hundred  years  ago  today.  But 
they  will  not  be  permitted  to  escape  by  vain  denials,  and  they  should  remember  that 
the  hundred  years  just  past  are  years  for  the  Castleton  school  to  be  proud  of.  One 
hundred  years  ago  today  the  state  of  my  present  adoption  did  not  acknowledge  the 
existence  of  Vermont  as  a  separate,  free  and  independent  state.  But  New  York 
had  not  then  more  than  the  leaven  of  New  England  which  has  since  aided  in  swell- 
ing her  dry  meal  to  its  present  loaf  of  magnificent  proportions.  New  York  had 
then  Dutch,  English  and  Indians — the  Dutch  for  language,  the  English  for  beauty 


<^  ^ 


LIRP4RY 
OF  THE 


INTRODTiaTORY  ADDRESS,  21 

and  the  Indians  for  intellect.  When  she  wanted  a  diploma  for  education  she  sent 
her  surveyors  to  Vermont  for  Ethan  Allen  and  his  Green  Mountain  associate  instruct- 
ors to  imprint  upon  their  parchment  the  birch  seal.  Even  then  Vermont  was  tak- 
ing rank  as  an  educator,  and  here,  upon  this  soil,  was  planted  seed  from  which 
has  been  added  much  to  the  fruit  garnered  within  the  century. 

I  do  not  belong  to  those  who  mourn  for  the  good  old  times,  and  bemoan  the 
degeneracy  of  the  present  age.  I  believe  the  world  grows  wiser  and  better  as  it 
grows  older.  So  far  as  concerns  material  progress,  no  one  can  deny  its  existence. 
In  the  past  century  corduroy  roads  have  given  way  to  iron  pathways  which  bring 
the  extreme  limits  of  the  continent  nearer  together  than  at  its  commencement  were 
towns  in  the  same  state  ;  the  genius  of  man  has  made  slaves  of  vapors  that  work 
vast  machinery  with  a  power  that  places  in  one  man's  hands  the  strength  of  thou- 
sands ;  the  lightnings  of  heaven  are  held  in  human  grasp  and  flash  thought  from 
mind  to  mind  through  the  limits  of  our  globe  without  lapse  of  time  ;  the  barren 
wildernesses  have  been  made  to  bloom,  while  implements  of  warfare  have  increased 
in  power  and  variety,  and  appliances  of  luxury  and  results  of  peace  have  multiplied 
so  that  it  would  seem  to  need  but  the  torch  of  strife  or  the  balm  of  universal  good 
will  to  make  the  whole  world  a  desert  or  a  garden.  Who  shall  say  that  the  educa- 
tion of  the  schools  has  not  been  a  material  factor  in  all  this  change?  Who  shall 
say  that  the  corner  stone  here  laid  one  hundred  years  ago  has  not  been  one  of  the 
chief  foundation  stones  of  the  new  structure? 

And  if  there  has  been  this  material  progress  in  the  century  just  past,  I  ask  you  if 
the  facts  do  not  justify  a  belief  in  a  moral  progress.  As  distances  have  been  les- 
sened, as  men  have  drawn  nearer  to  one  another,  as  minds,  from  constant  contact, 
have  grown  familiar  with  other  minds,  a  broader  charity  has  grown  up  ;  self  respect 
has  found  that  it  can  assert  itself  with  due  regard  for  the  rights  of  others ;  self 
assertion  may  exist  with  proper  appreciation  of  the  virtues  of  one's  fellows  ;  man  no 
longer  holds  property  in  man  ;  divines  no  longer  gloat  over  the  most  comforting 
doctrine  of  eternal  damnation  ;  heart  and  mind  sustain  one  another  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  purer  development,  and  we  may  joyously  believe  that  in  the  first  rays  of 
the  rising  sun  of  a  new  era,  we  have  a  right  to  hope  for  greater  happiness  to  all 
mankind  than  the  world  has  seen  since  the  gates  of  Eden  were  closed.  But  in  our 
joyous  hopes  for  the  future  it  will  be  well  that  we  do  not  too  greatly  exaggerate  the 
present  by  confounding  it  with  an  anticipated  future.  In  particular  it  will  not  do 
for  me  to  believe  that  toleration  of  the  faults  of  others  has  grown  to  the  extent  of 
extinguishing  human  impatience  and  just  resentment  against  usurpers. 

If  Douglas  was  right  in  saying  that  Vermont  was  a  good  place  to  migrate  from, 
bear  me  witness  that  I  speak  a  greater  truth  when  I  say  that  Vermont  is  a  good 
place  for  her  emigrants  to  come  back  to.  Now  that  we  are  back  here,  it  would 
please  me  much  to  occupy  your  time  with  a  recital  of  reminiscences  of  the  past^ 
even  to  the  extent  of  garrulity,  but  the  times  have  not  educated  you  to  a  degree  of 
tolerance  and  forbearance  from  which  I  could  hope  to  have  your  respect  and  good 
will,  if  I  should  thus  usurp  the  province  of  others.  I  am  not  here  to  speak,  but 
merely  to  introduce  speakers,  and  I  now  have  the  honor  to  propose  as  the  first  regu- 
lar toast : 

1.     TJie  State  of  Vermont : 

The  mother  of  men — the  builder  of  schools.  Her  wandering  sons,  with  hands 
that  touch,  have  stretched  for  her  a  broader  boundary  than  the  narrow  rim  of  lake 
and  river,  and  made  for  her  another  realm  unseen. 


22  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

RESPONSE  BY  HON.  F.  D.  DOUOLAS  OP  WHITING,  VT. 

The  theme  upon  which  I  am  called  to  speak  is  one  which  should  be  ever  dear 
to  every  native  born  citizen  of  our  state.  It  is  a  subject  which  may  properly  give 
inspiration  to  our  best  orators,  or  our  most  gifted  poets. 

The  early  history  of  Vermont  is  a  history  of  which  we  may  justly  be  proud. 
Proud  of  her  founders,  her  defenders,  her  statesmen,  and  her  scholars.  Prouder 
still  of  that  class  whose  names  may  not  be  found  upon  the  pages  of  history,  and 
whose  untiring  fidelity  and  devotion  have  not  been  rewarded  by  those  public  demon- 
strations of  honor  and  renown  with  which  the  world  is  wont  to  crown  its  favorite 
heroes.  I  refer  to  those  mothers  of  Vermont  who  in  her  early  history  presided  over 
those  homes  from  which  emanated  that  unyielding  integrity,  so  characteristic  of  the 
early  Vermonter. 

Vermont's  past  record  has  been  a  glorious  one.  Glorious  in  her  sons,  who  have 
gone  out  from  us  to  broader  fields  of  honor  and  usefulness.  Glorious  also  in  those 
who  remained  and  built  up  those  educational,  moral,  and  social  influences  that 
have  developed  Vermont's  true  men  who  have  given  her  a  reputation  for  those  ster- 
ling virtues  which  are  the  crowning  glory  of  any  people. 

The  problem  for  us  to  solve  is,  "How  shall  we  preserve  this  noble  heritage,  and 
hand  it  down  untarnished  to  coming  generations?"  It  is  peculiarly  fitting  that  we 
consider  this  problem  on  occasions  like  this. 

It  is  obviously  a  question  of  the  development  of  the  masses.  It  is  conceded  that 
the  individual  works  out  his  own  destiny.  That  he  is  responsible  for  the  moral, 
intellectual  and  social  character  which  he  sustains.  This  destiny,  under  Providence, 
is  in  his  own  keeping,  for  "  character  is  destiny."  That  which  is  true  of  the  indi- 
vidual is  also  true  of  the  state  and  nation.  This  generation  will  determine  the  char- 
acter of  that  which  is  to  follow.  From  the  youths  of  today  will  be  developed  the 
philanthropists,  the  scholars,  the  jurists,  and  the  statesmen  of  the  next  generation, 
and  ah!  too  truly,  too,  from  the  present  prattling  throng  of  youthful  innocence  will 
come  the  drunkard  and  his  triplet  brothers,  the  tramp  and  the  train-wrecker,  of  the 
near  future.  From  the  masses  of  to-day  will  come  the  state  and  the  nation  of 
tomorrow.  How,  then,  shall  these  masses  be  developed?  How,  and  by  what  influ- 
ences, can  this  work  be  most  effectually  accomplished?  I  hold  that  it  must  be,  if 
at  all,  through  those  influences  and  institutions  which  come  down  to  the  masses. 
For  their  secular,  and,  to  a  great  extent,  their  moral  and  social  training  we  must 
look  to  the  common  school  and  academy.  The  very  salvation  of  our  state  depends 
upon  the  character  of  these  and  the  patronage  which  they  receive. 

What  a  power  for  good  has  not  the  institution  whose  centennial  we  today  cele- 
brate, been  in  the  land  ?  Its  influence  has  not  been  confined  to  the  town,  county,  or 
state  of  its  birth  ;  it  has  been  as  broad  as  the  nation.  During  its  entire  history  it 
has  been  the  efficient  educator  of  the  thousands  of  pupils  who  have  flocked  to  its 
halls,  and  these,  in  turn,  have  educated  untold  thousands  more.  Today  it  is  the 
teacher  of  teachers  as  well  as  scholars.  It  is  one  of  those  nurseries  which  the  state 
has  wisely  provided  and  fostered  for  the  fitting  and  multiplying  of  those  devoted  to 
the  common  school  department  of  educational  work.  The  most  pressing  want  of 
the  times  is  accomplished,  energetic  teachers  in  this  department,  those  who  can 
successfully  develop  men  and  women  worthy  of  the  citizenship  of  a  free,  enlighten- 
ed state,  and  to  live  in  a  progressive  age. 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  23 

Take  oare  of  your  common  schools  and  academies,  and  the  colleges,  theological, 
law,  and  medical  schools  will  take  care  of  themselves.  Without  this  care  of  the 
primaries,  those,  like  the  stream  whose  fountains  are  dry,  will  become  contracted  and 
ruined.  Then  let  these  nurseries  of  teachers  be  sustained  and  multiplied.  We  need 
the  special  education  which  they  impart,  not  only  for  teachers,  but  for  the  future 
parents,  that  they  may  know  what  constitutes  good  schools,  and  be  prepared  to 
establish  and  maintain  them. 

What  an  impressive  lesson  has  not  Vermont's  history  of  the  recent  past  taught 
with  regard  to  the  developing  power  of  the  common  school  and  the  academy?  What 
nobler  sons  can  Vermont  ask,  what  more  accomplished  statesmen  can  she  expect 
from  any  source  than  that  noble  trio  who  have  so  long  represented  her  in  the  coun- 
cils of  the  state  and  nation  ?  The  names  of  Edmunds,  Morrill,  and  the  lamented 
Poland  are  fitting  examples  for  the  present  and  future  emulation  of  our  young  men, 
all  of  whom  came  up,  like  the  Franklins,  the  Henrys,  the  Lincolns,  and  the  Gree- 
leys  ,to  their  high  estate,  not  through  the  halls  of  classical  learning,  but  through  the 
homes,the  common  schools,  and  academies  of  their  time.  Let  us  sustain  those  insti- 
tutions which  have  developed  such  men,  and  which  lie  at  the  foundation  of  our  edu_ 
cational,  and  through  this,  of  our  social  and  political  development. 

Let  the  teachers  present  on  this  occasion  re-dedicate  themselves  to  their  noble 
work.  Let  the  parents  resolve  that  they  will  sustain  them.  Let  every  citizen  of 
Vermont  resolve  that  he  will  do  what  he  can  by  his  influence  and  vote  to  strengthen 
this  mighty  lever  for  the  uplifting  of  the  masses — the  common  school.  If  such 
impulses  and  resolutions  can  be  felt  and  put  in  practice  throughout  our  state,  we 
need  not  fear  that  the  future  of  Vermont  will  be  less  glorious  than  her  early  history. 

Hoist.  John"  I.  Gilbert,  of  Malone,  IST.  Y.,  also  responded  to  this  sentiment,  on 
behalf  of  "her  wandering  sons,''  in  an  eloquent  speech. 

2.     The  Rutland  Goanty  Grammar  School  : 

The  eldest  child  of  poor  but  honest  parents,  it  has  borne  the  burden  and  heat 
of  the  day  ;  and  now,  in  its  old  age  and  in  the  evening  of  the  century,  trots  the  Nor- 
mal School,  its  healthy  grandchild,  on  its  knee. 

The  Hon.  Merritt  Clark,  a  student  seventy  years  before,  and  for  fifty  years  a 
trustee  of  the  school,  was  called  upon  to  respond  to  this  sentiment.  Mr.  Clark 
excused  himself  from  making  a  speech,  but  read  instead  the  following  original 
poem  : 

POETS   OF  VERMONT. 

Poets  quite  oft  like  sheaves  are  seen. 
Which  separate  broad  fields  of  green, 
Or  like  the  stars  with  brilliant  light 
Which  punctuate  the  shades  of  night. 
The  Druids  dwell  our  groves  among. 
And  sing  perchance,  as  Sappho  sung. 

Do  poets  dream,  aye,  ever  dream, 

And  are  their  teachings  what  they  seem  ? 

To  life  they  give  a  rosy  hue, 

Oft  times  the  picture  proves  untrue. 


24  AFTER-BIWNER  EXERCISES, 

Our  common  life  is  quite  the  same 
From  day  to  day  !     There  is  no  flame 
To  warm,  no  hope,  no  chance  to  rise. 
Oft  without  thrift  or  enterprise. 
A  luckless  life  will  end  the  scene 
Unless  a  change  shall  intervene. 

Yet  poets  love  their  native  land , 
And  ours  have  proved  a  stalwart  band. 
With  pen  and  patriotic  song, 
Upholding  right,  denouncing  wrong. 
In  battle  oft  and  often  where 
Our  country's  greatest  perils  are. 

The  late  war,  note  !  not  waged  for  fame 
Or  conquest.     It  had  higher  aim. 
A  nation  and  the  soldier  brave 
Sought  freedom  only  for  the  slave  ! 
Accomplished  that — his  shackles  fell ; 
The  sound  was  slavery's  funeral  knell. 
The  wide  earth  o'er,  beneath  the  sun, 
A  greater  victory  ne'er  was  won. 
Proclaim  it  till  time  shall  end, 
Freemen  will  the  right  defend. 

Not  all  stalwarts  !  some  weak  as  men 
Long  past  their  three  score  years  and  ten. 

I  had  a  classmate — sad  his  fate  ! 

His  rank  was  high  and  laureate, 

^'  His  words  were  silvern,  thoughts  of  gold," 

His  mental  structure,  finest  mould, 

He  had  a  faith  that  gave  a  hope. 

Was  flighty  and  inclined  to  grope, 

He  met  the  world  and  baffled  fell, 

His  home  loug  years  a  madman's  cell. 

McDonald  poor,  to  mem'ry  dear. 

Accept  the  tribute  of  a  tear. 

Others  with  greater  force  have  told 

The  stories  of  the  days  of  old. 

Of  Institutions  founded  here 

By  sturdy  men  as  pioneer. 

Prime  schools  they  built,  laid  forests  low, 

'Tis  now  a  hundred  years  ago. 

Made  here  were  "  pitches '' — acres  cleared, 

The  hovel  and  the  cabin  reared, 

Ai)d  here  was  built  a  '*  picket-fort," 

And  ^'Justice  Higley  held  a  court;" 

'Twas  here  they  gave  a  ''  pastor's  call," 

Also  **an  ordination  ball;" 

Here  Arnold  and  brave  Allen  plan'd 


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OF  THE 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

To  capture  Ti  with  ^'  great  demand." 
I  frolicked  here,  light-hearted  boy, 
With  brimming  cup  of  mirth  and  joy  ; 
Out  up,  and  fell  in  love,  you  know. 
But  that  was  seyenty  years  ago. 
Enough  of  this  crank  story's  told, 
Alas  !     I'm  garrulous  and  old. 

In  retrospect  to-day  I  see 

The  changes  of  a  century, 

An  evidence  of  yast  increase 

In  commerce,  wealth,  arts,  war  and  peace. 

And  yet  God's  laws  haye  never  changed, 
Both  wise  and  just,  it's  so  arranged. 
The  summer  sun  and  winter  snow 
And  varied  seasons  come  and  go. 
Eolus'  harp  is  now  the  same, 
Fire  warms  and  glows  with  upward  flame. 

In  episode  and  contrasts  e'en, 
Allow  to  tell  what  I  have  seen. 

I've  seen  a  storm.     In  sable  shroud 
The  wild  winds  rushed — the  forests  bowed, 
An  angry  Grod  spake  from  a  cloud  ! 
Loud  thunders  roll,  the  storm  fiends  cry, 
The  lightnings  flash  athwart  the  sky. 
I've  seen  a  calm.     The  storm  was  o'er, 
Still  waters  slept  upon  the  shore, 
The  summer  shade  and  golden  light 
Eeturned  like  harvest  moon  at  night. 

I've  not  seen  peace,  the  golden  age 

Foretold  so  oft  by  ancient  sage. 

The  picture  which  old  Virgil  drew 

None  ever  saw  or  ever  knew. 

The  halcyon  day,  quite  free  from  strife. 

Is  not  the  gift  of  this  brief  life. 

The  poet,  paint  it  as  he  may, 

Can  never  paint  the  perfect  day, 

When  rain,  or  cloud,  or  wind,  or  shower, 

Shall  not  disturb  the  peaceful  hour; 

Or  memory  recall  the  wrong 

And  ills  of  life,  a  countless  throng. 

No  perfect  peace  on  earth  is  given, 

That  boon  alone  is  found  in  heaven. 

The  world  moves  on  ;  men  fill  the  marts 
And  stocks  and  sales  and  varied  arts, 
Commingle  with  defaults  and  wrong  ; 
The  weak  grow  frail,  the  strong  more  strong. 


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Our  friends  have  told,  and  told  us  well. 

What  antedates  this  festival. 

Assembled  here  to-day,  we  see 

Oft  branches  of  the  parent  tree, 

In  fruitage  rich  with  gifted  men, 

Who  wield  the  sword,  the  plough,  the  pen, 

Known  in  the  church,  the  state  or  art, 

Where  men  are  called  to  take  a  part. 

Such  is  the  record  of  the  years, 

O'ercast  with  trials  oft  and  fears. 

Arise,  Alumni,  and  decree 

Beneath  this  academic  tree 

What  shall. its  future  hist'ry  be. 

I've  wandered.    Poet  is  our  theme. 
Perhaps  I'm  guilty  of  a  dream. 
Too  weak  is  age  to  follow  long 
The  thread  that's  woven  into  song. 

A  dream  is  what,  and  what  the  power 
That  greets  us  at  the  midnight  hour  ? 
Kemembrance  wakes  of  youth  and  home 
And  sweet  reunions  ne'er  to  come. 

JVatus  not  fit,  hath  Horace  said, 
The  bard  of  Troy  and  long  since  dead. 
Poets,  like  stars,  will  ever  shine, 
Some  more,  some  less,  and  some  divine. 

Our  Eastman  had  a  poet's  birth, 
Playful  was  Saxe  and  full  of  mirth, 
Crisp  Hunting,  apt  versifier, 
Chaste  Dorr  and  lover  of  the  lyre, 
Kendrick,  refined,  compact  and  terse, 
And  Post,  excelled  in  sacred  verse. 
Great  masters  all,  with  gifted  pow'r, 
To  cheer  and  gild  the  passing  hour, 
Uplift  our  hopes,  our  joys  prolong, 
In  sweetest  strains  of  varied  song. 
Passed  on  have  some,  and  on  their  brow 
To-day  we  place  the  myrtle  bough  ; 
To  those  who  live,  we  grant  in^^brief. 
In  classic  lore,  the  laurel  leaf. 


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Castleton  Seminary  : 

The  spring  in  the  mountains,  the  fount  of  strength  and  inspiration,  the  shrine 
of  happy  memories  ;  its  strength  endures,  its  charm  lives  on,  its  blessing  deepens 
with  the  passing  years. 

KESPONSE  BY  REV.  GEO.  N.  BOARDMAN,  D.  D., 

OF  CHICAGO  THEOLOGICAL  SEMIN^ARY. 

Mr.  President — I  shall  take  the  liberty  of  being  somewhat  free  in  the  interpre- 
tation of  the  sentiment  on  which  I  speak.  My  subject  is  Castleton  Seminary.  It 
is  a  spring  among  the  mountains.  It  has  sent  forth  a  refreshing  and  inyigorating 
stream  for  generations.  Its  influence  has  been  felt  in  almost  every  town  in  the 
State,  and  largely  felt  in  other  States.  The  great  work  which  this  institution  has 
done  is  in  its  efficiency  in  moulding  the  homes  of  Vermont.  She  has  sent  out  sons 
and  daughters  who  have  occupied  what  are  called  high  positions  in  the  world,  but 
this  is  not  her  chief  glory  :  her  honor  is,  that  she  has  helped  to  make  the  homes  of 
this  State  better  ;  has  added  to  the  intelligence  of  those  who  have  labored  on  the 
farm  and  in  the  workshop  ;  has  made  husbands  and  fathers  more  wise  and  consid- 
erate ;  has  helped  wives  and  mothers  to  make  homes  more  attractive,  families  more 
happy. 

These  results  have  flowed  forth  in  blessings  upon  the  State  as  if  they  came 
from  a  living  spring,  but  in  fact  they  were  the  product  of  hard  labor  within  the 
institution  itself.  I  prefer  to  call  this  school  a  well  rather  than  a  spring,  and  to 
think  of  its  streams  as  thrown  out  by  a  pump  rather  than  as  bubbling  forth  spon- 
taneously. And  I  shall  take  the  liberty  of  speaking  of  some  of  those  who  have  had 
their  hands  upon  the  pump-handle,  and  of  some  of  the  pupils  who  have  been  sent 
forth  by  their  impulsion. 

I  shall  assume  that  the  first  five  yeai-s  of  Mr.  Hallock's  administration  were  the 
model  years  of  this  institution  and  confine  my  remarks  mainly  to  that  period. 

Mr.  Hallock  was  a  strong  man — physically  and  intellectually.  He  came  to  this 
town  in  1838  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the  Congregational  church  for  a  few  months 
in  the  absence  of  the  pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  Steele.  Though  the  Seminary  at  that 
time  was  thoroughly  run  down,  he  had  the  sagacity  to  see  the  strength  of  the 
position.  He  always  considered  it  as  good  a  place  for  an  academy  as  any  in  the 
State.  He  accepted  the  office  of  Principal  and  set  himself  to  the  duties  of  his 
office.  He  had  most  wonderful  powers  of  persuasion.  He  gathered  in  the  sons  and 
daughters  of  the  farmers  and  mechanics  from  all  the  neighboring  counties  ;  he  set 
himself  to  improving  the  appearance  of  the  building  and  grounds,  and  we  owe  to 
him  the  paint  upon  those  walls  and  the  trees  under  whose  shadow  we  are  now  gath- 
ered. He  always  kept  good  teachers,  especially  in  the  main  departments  of  the 
school,  while  he  could,  in  an  emergency,  take  any  position  and  fill  it  well.  He  was 
a  man  of  marked  character,  was  too  incautious  as  to  his  own  reputation,  and  from 
birth  was  predestined  to  the  epithet  *'  old."  I  have  heard  him  called  *'  old  Hallock  " 
in  Minnesota,  and,  I  suppose,  in  every  State  between  here  and  there.  He  was  a 
good  man  for  boys  to  snowball  when  he  was  riding  past  in  a  sleigh,  a  good  man  for 
those  annoyed  with  him  to  assail  behind  the  back,  but  he  was  about  as  well  able  to 
take  care  of  himself  when  opponents  were  before  him  as  any  one  I  have  ever  known. 
He  had  defects  of  character,  but  if  the  present  principal  were  to  retire,  as  he    has 


28  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

intimated  may  be  the  case  (I  trust  he  may  long  remain),  and  another  E.  J.  Hallock 
were  to  appear,  for  one  I  should  say,  do  not  look  further,  here  is  the  man  to  be  at 
the  head  of  our  school. 

Another  who  did  yeoman's  service  in  plying  the  pump-handle  was  Samuel 
Hurlburt,  Mr.  Hallock's  assistant,  afterwards  the  Kev.  Samuel  Hurlburt  of  New 
Haven,  in  this  State.  What  a  compound  of  pride  and  humility,  of  honesty  and 
shrewdness  was  he.  He  was  the  embodiment  of  sincerity,  yet  he  ^had  no  idea  ot 
allowing  himself  to  be  imposed  upon  ;  he  seemed  to  have  a  childlike  sim- 
plicity, yet  he  would  have  deemed  it  an  eternal  disgrace  to  be  outwitted  by  a 
rogue.  No  one  ran  any  risk  in  trusting  him,  but  any  one  ran  a  good  deal  of  risk  in 
attempting  to  get  an  advantage  of  him.  He  rejoiced  generously  in  the  success  of 
others,  but  hated  terribly  to  be  beaten  himself.  He  was  every  inch  a  scholar,  a  cor- 
dial helper  of  every  one  who  tried  to  do  well,  and  a  friend  as  true  as  steel.  To  very 
few  have  I  ever  been  so  strongly  attached.  He  died  all  too  early,  to  our  human 
thinking,  soon  after  he  had  entered  his  fortieth  year. 

What  shall  I  say  of  his  successor  in  office,  the  all-accomplished  Churchill?  He 
opened  to  us  a  new  idea  of  scholarship.  He  seemed  to  know  everything,  he  seemed 
able  to  say  anything  in  exactly  the  fittest  and  most  accurate  way,  he  never  doubted, 
he  never  hesitated,  was  never  dull  or  weary.  Everybody  said  he  would  make  hi& 
mark.  It  needed  no  prophet  to  say  it ;  he  is  probably  a  friend  of  our  Chairman  ; 
both  are  in  Nev\r  York  politics.  One  has  been  on  the  bench  and  in  Congress  ;  we 
expect  soon  to  hear  from  the  other  at  Washington.  There  are  many  other  names 
which  ought  to  be  mentioned  to-day,  but  I  must  leave  the  teachers  to  others,  and 
turn  to  say  a  few  words  about  pupils. 

Kate  Newell  came  here  from  Charlotte.  Her  intellectual  face  at  once  drew  all 
eyes.  I  perhaps  never  spoke  with  her  during  our  school  days — she  was  in  the  semi- 
nary, I  was  a  day  scholar — but  her  reputation  was  a  possession  in  which  we  all 
shared.  She  was  witty,  I  suspect  at  times  sarcastic,  scholarlike  and  ladylike.  Her 
loss  was  universally  mourned  when  she  went  away.  Her  first  marriage  was  unhappy, 
but  as  Mrs.  Daggett  of  Chicago  she  was  idolized  by  her  husband,  the  center  of 
admiring  friends,  a  woman  of  wide  information,  a  champion  of  the  dignities  of  her 
sex,  the  founder  of  a  ladies' literary  club,  where  great  themes  are  ably  discussed  and 
where  her  bust  is  lovingly  gazed  upon  by  friends  who  deplore  her  untimely  death. 
But  why  does  time  hasten  on  and  forbid  one  to  speak  of  many  whose  forms  rise  up 
before  me  ?  Fennel  and  Wilcox,  who  left  the  seminary  about  the  time  I  entered  it, 
Jane  Smith — now  Mrs.  Carr — easily  a  leader  wherever  she  may  be,  the  stately 
Cooper,  the  elegant  Lodge,  the  silent  James  Nash,  Gridley  Perkins,  almost  another 
name  for  intellectual  keenness,  Daniel  Gorham,  Warren  Winchester,  John  Lowth, 
Hodges,  Hawkins,  Dake  and  the  Hookers.  Some  of  them  are  no  more.  Their  for- 
tunes have  been  varied,  but  they  all  deserve  to  be  mentioned  to-day.  I  must  pause, 
after  bringing  forward  one  name  more.  There  stands  my  friend  and  classmate  in 
this  institution — John  Curtis — the  incarnation  of  mathematics  and  mechanics,  the 
repairer  of  old  clocks  about  as  soon  as  he  could  walk  alone.  He  shot  through  his 
algebra  before  his  classmates  fairly  knew  what  they  were  studying.  Excused  from 
mathematics  in  college  because  his  lessons  would  not  keep  him  from  mischief,  as  an 
undergraduate  he  gave  much  of  his  time  to  mechanics,  and  in  his  later  occupations 
he  has  given  his  thoughts,  among  other  things,  to  perfecting  the  steam  engine.  He 
lives  on  his  paternal  acres,  like  old  Grimes,  *^in  easy  circumstances,"  and  with  the 
haste  for  which  he  was  famous  in  school  days,  he  has  for  forty  years  intended  to 
bring  his  inventions  before  the  world,  when  he  gets  ready. 


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AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES.  29 

One  closing  word  for  the  dear  old  seminary.  We  have  been  told  to-day  that 
the  classics  have  been  dropiped  from  her  curriculum  of  study.  Institutions,  like 
men,  must  often  do  as  they  can,  not  as  they  would.  We  rejoice  that  there  has  been 
no  diminution  here  in  the  thoroughness  of  discipline.  We  have  no  fault  to  find. 
But  I  believe  in  the  dead  languages.  I  would  have  a  boy  follow  Latin  roots  quite 
down  to  Cesar's  coffin.  I  believe  one  draws  life  from  familiarity  with  the  old  ora- 
tors and  statesmen.  Classic  schools  in  these  days  need  endowments.  Rutland 
county  is  rich.  Cannot  our  seminary  have  $100,000  as  a  classic  foundation.  Talk- 
ing is  vanity  ;  where  is  the  rich  man  or  woman  among  our  graduates  who  will  endow 
the  institution  and  revive  its  fame  for  classic  learning  ? 

RESPONSE  BY  A.  E.  HIGLEY, 

OF   BENSON,    VERMONT. 

Dr.  Boardman  speaks  of  the  years  when  he  was  at  school  here  as  the  model 
years  of  this  institution.  But  it  is  not  so.  The  days  when  I  was  a  scholar  here, 
and  serenaded  the  girls  and  climbed  the  balconies,  were  the  golden  days.  To  him 
Mr.  Hallock  is  philosopher,  guide  and  friend.  To  me  Miss  Haskell  is  the  ideal 
teacher.  The  tree  he  planted  in  this  park  may  be  strong  with  deep  roots  and  broad 
branches,  but  my  tree  is  deeper  and  higher  and  broader,  with  sturdier  trunk  and 
richer  leaf.  And  so,  as  the  years  come  and  go,  to  each  scholar  the  palmy  days  of 
this  school  will  be  Ms  days,  and  the  best  and  strongest  teachers  will  be  the  teachers 
of  Ills  time — and  that  is  well.  And  ^'  I  will  weary  you  no  longer,  then,  with  idle 
talking." 

RESPONSE  BY  REY.  H.  P.  HIGLEY,  D.  D., 

OF   BELOIT,    WISCONSIN". 

I  can  at  least  mount  this  bench,  and  thus  follow  Prof.  Boardman  toward  glory, 
so  far.  I  am  not  going  to  say  much  (not  in  value  at  least),  but  I  think  I  can  make 
you  all  hear  what  I  do  say.  You  see  I  ow^e  more  than  some  who  have  preceded  me 
to  Castleton  schooling,  for  I  took  lessons  in  open-air  elocution  on  yonder  side-hill, 
driving  oxen.  That  picture  to  the  southeast,  framed  between  these  two  majDles,, 
showing  just  where  the  wood-road  enters  the  timber,  reminds  me  what  great  shouts 
it  took  to  get  safely  down  that  hill. 

We  are  all  proud  of  Castleton  to-day,  of  the  heads  that  planned  and  the  hands 
that  executed,  and  the  skill  and  taste  everywhere,  in  the  royal  welcome  back  to  the 
widely  scattered  sons  and  daughters  of  this  old,  long  useful^  and  still  efficient 
school. 

Principal  Leavenworth  is  quite  right  that  there  ought  to  be  a  provision  for  the 
future  by  which  this  ground  and  all  it  contains  should  be  consecrated  to  the  cause 
of  education  for  all  time  to  come.  I  share  the  conviction  of  the  last  speaker  that 
the  best  line  of  work  for  such  a  school  as  this  must  include  thorough  classical 
training.  T^here  are  colleges  enough  in  New  England,  but  for  schools  that  stand 
between  the  usual  grade  of  town  and  village  public  school  and  the  college,  there  is 
still  room.  There  is  especially  room  at  the  top.  It  is  the  hest  that,  in  the  long 
run,  will  be  wanted,  that  ought  to  be  wanted.  I  am  old-fashioned  enough 
to  believe  that  with  the  enlarging  fields  of  scientific  and  literary  knowledge, 
there  is  nothing  that  can  take  the  place,  for  healthful,  varied  mental  dis- 
cipline, of  those  old  tongues,  Latin  and  Greek.  I  would  be  glad  to  see 
here  a  classical  school  of  first  rank — not  to  the  exclusion  of  other  things, 
but  with    the    rest.     If    there  is    one  thing    with    which  I  associate    the  best 


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progress  I  ever  made  in  mental  growth,  it  is  with  the  shaking  up  and  invigo- 
rating which  came  to  me  in  the  study  of  Latin.  That  the  principal  of  to-day  has 
acted  wisely  and  met  a  present  demand,  I  fully  believe,  and  I  would  rather  see  such 
thorough  work  as  we  learn  is  done  here,  than  to  have  second-grade  work  in  any  line 
of  study.  But  my  ideal  of  the  lest  cannot  leave  out — from  a  good  large  place — the 
tonic  and  stimulus  of  classic  study. 

Now,  looking  back,  the  good    work  of  the  last  hundred   years  has  had   three 
things  that  I  would  like  to  name  : 

1.  Good  timber  to  work  with — the  boys  and  girls,  young  men  and  women  of 
Yermo]it.  A  New  Hampshire  speaker,  responding  to  a  toast  for  his  State,  spoke 
of  the  custom  for  an  artisan  to  show  as  a  sign  a  specimen  of  the  work  he  was  ready 
to  do — a  blacksmith,  a  horseshoe;  a  shoemaker,  a  boot,  etc.,  *'so  when  the  Almighty 
made  New  Hampshire,  He  cut  the  profile  of  a  man  on  the  face  of  one  of  her  moun- 
tains, and  left  there  his  sign  of  the  decreed  purpose  that  New  Hampshire  should 
make  men.*'  That  was  well  said.  But  though  the  ''old  man  of  the  mountain  "  looks 
down  upon  hills  that  are  east  of  Connecticut  river,  we  will  let  facts  speak  for  Vermont. 
Her  men  and  women  shall  be  her  sign.  Oood  stuff,  in  vigor,  and  health,  and 
industry,  and  economy,  and  integrity  has  come  up  here  from  home  and  school,  from 
farm  and  village.  Perhaps  no  one  has  mentioned  it,  but  in  my  day  there  were  very 
pretty,  bright,  sweet  girls  in  Castleton  seminary. 

A  year  or  two  after  I  had  married,  a  college  classmate  cut  out  of  a  Chicago 
paper,  where  he  lives,  a  newspaper  item.  It  said  that  Kate  and  John  Jones,  mar- 
ried by  Rev.  H.  P.  H.,  at  such  a  time  and  place,  were  divorced,  etc.,  etc.  My  friend 
wrote  that  his  wife  was  very  anxious  to  know  if  my  work  was  turning  out  like  that. 
I  answered  that  it  all  depended  on  the  timber  I  had  to  work  with.  I  would  not 
agree  to  make  ox-bows  out  of  basswood,  but  if  he  would  furnish  good  hickory  they 
should  bear  the  hardest  pull.- 

2.  Then  there  have  been  good  teachers  at  work  here — many  of  them  have  been 
named  today — strong,  manly  men,  and  not  less  noble  and  worthy  women.  All 
know  what  Garfield  said  of  President  Hopkins  in  the  way  of  comparing  colleges. 
*'A  slab  bench  for  a  seat,  Mark  Hopkins  on  one  end  and  I  at  the  other,  and  that 
would  be  the  college  for  me."  Not  fine  buildings  nor  large  equipment,  but  heads 
and  hearts  of  true,  strong,  noble,  living  men  and  women  are  the  important  aids  to 
education. 

3.  All  truth  leads  up  to  God.  The  Bible  and  Christianity  have  not  been  left 
out  of  the  work  here  done.  Try  to  bleach  education  so  that  the  colors  of  the  cross 
will  not  show  in  it — the  attempt  sometimes  made  in  the  text-books  and  the  State 
schools  of  public  education — and  the  fabric  gets  thin  and  rotten  in  the  treatment. 

Long  may  this  school  have,  in  the  youth  who  gather  here,  good  material  to  work 
with  ;  in  her  teachers^  not  mere  encyclopedias  of  wisdom,  but,  first  of  all,  men  and 
tuomen,  alive  and  consecrated,  good  and  strong.  Then,  true  to  Christ,  and  drawing 
wisdom  from  his  word  and  spirit,  may  her  youth  be  trained  for  such  living  as  the 
world  needs,  and  as  will  lead  right  onward  to  ''  better  worlds  on  high." 


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4.     Tlie  State  Normal  School : 

The  evolution  of  tlie  times,  and  as  it  looks  to  the  future  with  steadfast  heart, 
may  it  prove  to  be  the  survival  of  the  fittest. 

RESPONSE  BY  PRINCIPAL  LEAVENWORTH. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : — Had  my  own  wishes  been  consulted 
I  should  have  been  passed  by  on  this  most  interesting  occasion,  for  I  am  daily  seen 
and  often  heard  on  these  classic  grounds,  so  endeared  to  you  by  the  associations  of 
the  past.  There  are  so  many  here  whose  voices  you  would  like  to  hear,  for  by  asso- 
ciation they  could  not  fail  to  revive  the  memories  of  the  past,  and  I  can  only  speak 
of  the  near  present. 

But,  my  friends,  I  am  glad,  yes  proud,  to  be  here  and  to  claim  recognition  as 
the  guardian  of  the  rich  heritage  you  have  handed  down  to  my  charge.  I  am  glad 
to  welcome  you  home  again.  These  grounds,  the  cooling  shade  of  these  graceful 
trees,  many  of  which  some  of  you  helped  to  plant,  yon  venerable  building,  stand- 
ing there  as  our  fathers  placed  it,  and  well  nigh  as  good  as  new,  are  today  yours  to 
use  and  to  enjoy. 

Be  at  home  again,  then,  and  let  happiness  reign  supreme  in  your  breasts.  I 
knew  Principal  Hallock  well  by  reputation.  His  niece.  Miss  Sparhawk,  was  the 
playmate  of  my  childhood,  and  for  some  years  I  taught  among  his  kindred  at  New 
Haven,  so  that  his  name  was  often  kindly  mentioned  in  my  hearing. 

And  when  today,  at  the  church,  I  called  for  his  students  to  rise  and  join  the 
procession,  I  was  at  first  amazed  at  the  enthusiastic  numbers  ;  and  when  I  saw  the 
look  of  loyal  pride  upon  their  countenances,  I  could  but  wish  that  he  could  have 
seen  what  I  saw.  It  would  have  been  something  of  a  reward  for  all  his  work  in 
their  behalf.  And  the  same  feeling  was  strengthened  as  the  students  of  other  peri- 
ods arose.  After  all,  the  chief  reward  of  the  faithful  teacher  is  found  in  this  recog- 
nition by  his  pupils  in  after  years  of  the  esteem  in  which  they  hold  his  services. 

Some  who  have  spoken  seem  almost  to  fear  that  a  decline  has  come  to  their 
alma  mater,  because  their  interest  centers  in  the  period  of  their  sojourn  here.  Latin 
and  Greek  are  no  longer  taught  here,  and  they  fear  that  the  discipline  found  by 
them  in  the  study  of  these  languages,  which  gave  them  strength  to  do  and  attain, 
may  not  be  secured  by  the  present  curriculum  of  study.  But  is  not  discipline  the 
outcome  of  experience,  and  may  it  not  be  found  in  other  lines  of  study?  Is  it  not 
rather  secured  by  the  way  in  which  a  study  is  pursued  than  in  the  subject  matter? 
I  was  long  a  classical  teacher,  and  I  yield  to  none  in  my  estimation  of  classical 
instruction.  But  have  not  our  old  English  authors.  Bacon,  Milton,  Addison,  Shake- 
speare, and  many  others  I  might  enumerate,  become  classic,  and  can  we  not  obtain 
from  the  right  study  of  these  nearly  all  the  discipline  in  language  that  we  need? 
We  claim  that  our  training  in  these  is  classic,  and  the  results  shown  by  our  gradu- 
ates justify  this  claim. 

But  I  must  not  weary  you  ;  your  time  is  too  valuable.  You  desire  to  seek  out 
old  school-mates,  and  to  recall  the  scenes  of  auJd  lang  syne*  As  I  have  witnessed 
these  meetings  today  my  breast  has  warmed  in  sympathetic  response,  and  my  heart 
been  made  to  leap  for  joy  that  I  am  permitted  to  have  a  little  part  in  this  celebra- 
tion. And  I  have  renewed  my  vow  to  be  true  to  the  institution  you  so  love,  as 
strength  and  ability  and  means  are  given  to  me. 


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Ten  years  more  of  labor  may  perhaps  be  vouchsafed  to  me.  I  know  not,  but 
after  that,  what?  I  can  but  repeat  what  I  said  briefly  at  the  church.  The  Alumni 
should  regain  control  of  the  property  and  place  it  under  conditions  that  will  make  it 
sure  for  the  service  of  the  school  in  the  generations  to  come.  This  will  be  compar- 
atively easy  to  accomplish  while  I  am  at  the  helm. 

Again  I  bid  you  welcome,  and  may  you  carry  to  your  homes  only  pleasant 
memories  of  the  day,  and  never  have  cause  to  regret  your  connection  with  this 
school  in  the  past,  or  that  you  participated  in  the  festivities  of  its  first  centennial 
celebration. 

5.     Castleton  Village. 

The  home  of  faith  and  hospitality  ;  its  shady  streets  have  felt  the  tread  of  many 
feet  that  wander  far,  and  no  one  goes  but  longs  to  come  again. 

KESPONSE  BY  THE  REV.  C.  N.  THOMAS, 

OF   PORT   HENRY,  N.  T. 

Two  thoughts  suggest  themselves  to  me  as  I  think  of  Castleton  and  her  schools. 
One  is  that  the  people  of  this  town  so  loved,  and  aided,  and  cherished  the  seminary 
that  to  them  must  be  accredited,  in  no  small  measure,  the  prosperity  which  the 
school  has  attained.  This  tree  of  learning  has  grown  and  spread  out  its  branches 
so  that  it  bears  rich  fruit  in  all  this  broad  land,  and  even  in  other  lands,  because  it 
had  good  soil  to  grow  in.  The  other  thought  is  that  Castleton  has  nourished  another 
institution  of  which  she  may  well  be  proud.  I  refer  to  Castleton  Medical  College, 
'^vhich  for  years  was  the  best  known  and  most  highly  reputed  medical  school  outside 
'Of  the  city  of  New  York.  So  what  village  in  Vermont  has  a  better  educational 
record?  In  her  work  for  the  country  she  should  be  congratulated  as  second  to  no 
other  in  all  the  region  round  about. 

As  the  speaker  concluded  shouts  of  ^*Song  !"  ^*  Song  !"  arose  from  all  parts 
of  the  grounds,  from  friends  and  contemporaries  who  remembered  his  singing  of  yore. 
In  response  Mr.  Thomas,  with  all  his  old-time  sweetness  and  power,  sang  "  Mine 
eyes  have  seen  the  glory  of  the  coming  of  the  Lord,"  the  people  joining  in  the 
chorus. 

RESPONSE  BY  THE  REV.  LEWIS  FRANCIS, 

OF   BROOKLYIT,  N.  Y. 

He  began  with  playfully  alluding  to  a  scene  which  he  had  just  witnessed  in  the 
cars  of  a  woman  who  rushed  to  the  rear  of  a  swiftly  moving  train,  wildly  shouting 
to  Tommy  that  she  had  left  her  bundle,  and  saying  that  he  felt  something  as  she 
did,  for  his  bundle  of  a  speech  was  altogether  left  behind,  and  he  had  no  way  of 
gathering  one  from  the  reminiscences  of  the  day,  as  he  had  neither  taught  in  the 
seminary  nor  been  a  pupil  there,  as  all  the  speakers  who  had  preceded  him  had. 
Mr.  Francis  continued  :  My  earliest  acquaintance  with  Castleton  village  began  when 
I  was  a  college  boy,  when  one  winter's  evening  I  was  left  with  some  fellow  studentu 
by  a  failure  of  the  cars  to  make  connection,  and  was  obliged  to  spend  the  night 
here.  Mr.  Hyde  Wcstover  very  hospitably  welcomed  us  to  his  hostlery  at  the  foot 
of  Seminary  street,  but  soon  exhausting  its  resources   my  companions   and  I  sallied 


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out  to  find  some  amusement  and  discovered  what  probably  is  unknown  to  many 
here,  that  Castleton  Seminary  had  in  those  days  a  gymnasium  !  I  never  heard  of 
it  afterwards,  but  can  testify  to  its  existence  then.  Following  the  leadership  of  a 
colored  boy  we  were  led  to  a  place  near  the  Seminary  park  where  was  a  rickety  old 
building  in  which  was  a  bowling  alley.  This  was  dimly  lighted  with  tallow  candles, 
the  boy  holding  one  to  show  us  where  to  bowl,  and  here  I  was  first  introduced  to  any 
part  of  the  curriculum  of  Castleton  Seminary,  and  had  my  first  and  last  training 
under  its  fostering  care.  But  even  that  old  bowling  alley  has  long  ago  departed, 
and  J  wish  it  might  in  these  latter  days  be  succeeded  by  a  gymnasium  worthy  the 
name  for  the  use  of  the  students  who  gather  for  study  within  these  Seminary  halls. 
But  of  Castleton  village  I  can  say  that  as  today  I  walked  up  its  streets  I  thought  I 
had  never  seen  it  look  so  beautiful  and  attractive,  and  I  was  reminded  of  the  eight 
happy  years  I  had  passed  here,  and  of  the  many  expressions  of  kindness,  and  the 
generous  manifestations  of  hospitality  I  have  received.  The  trees  have  grown  larger, 
the  arched  avenues  of  bough  and  leaf  —  more  beautiful  than  cathedral  aisle  —  have 
grown  higher  and  richer  with  added  beauty  in  the  years  since  I  went  away,  and  in 
them  I  find  a  symbol  of  increased  strength  and  growth  in  the  Seminary  which 
adorns  the  village,  and  a  presage  of  what  it  is  yet  to  be  in  the  second  century  upon 
which  it  is  entering.  I  have  been  surprised  today  to  hear  its  Principal  speak  as  if 
he  was  old,  or  that  he  had  not  many  years  before  him  still  of  usefulness.  Mr. 
Leavenworth  was  a  member  of  my  class  when  he  graduated  at  college,  though  of 
but  a  day's  standing,  and  took  his  degree  with  me  and  was  recorded  in  the  college 
catalogue  as  of  my  class.  I  certainly  do  not  propose  to  consider  myself  an  old  man. 
I  am  rather  a  young  man,  and  my  classmate  is  not  old.  He  has  energy  and  vigor 
and  pluck  and  ability,  and  for  him  I  prophesy  many  years  of  increasing  usefulness 
in  the  old  seminary,  and  for  him  and  the  school  I  can  wish  only  the  best  things  and 
pray  that  the  years  to  be  may  be  better  and  richer  than  any  of  the  years  of  the  long 
century  just  closed. 

RESPONSE    BY    PROF.    DUNHAM    ARNOLD, 

OF  "WASHIiq'GTON"  UNIVERSITY,    ST.    LOUIS,   MO. 

Some  wit  has  said  that  the  tallest  man  he  ever  knew  was  named  Short,  the  black- 
est man  he  ever  saw  was  named  White  ;  and  on  the  same  principle  of  delightful  con- 
trast, I  suppose,  the  best  man  to  represent  the  village  of  Castleton  is  one  who  was 
born  in  the  State  of  Rhode  Island.  And  there  is  reason  in  this.  "  Let  another  praise 
thee  and  not  thine  own  lips.''  Castleton  can  bear  all  the  encomiums  heaped  upon  it. 
A  lady  and  gentleman,  who  have  traveled  widely,  told  me,  when  passing  through  here 
a  few  days  ago,  that  it  is  the  prettiest  village  they  ever  saw.  Not  only  is  it  remark- 
able for  its  beautiful  streets,  its  shady  maples,  its  pleasant  homes,  and  the  views  from 
the  surrounding  hills,  but  it  is  a  great  moral  sanitarium.  There  are,  at  present,  four 
ex-ministers  living  here,  to  say  nothing  of  those  who  make  periodical  and  temporary 
visits  to  gather  oxygen  and  inspiration  for  future  discourses.  The  returning  sons  and 
daughters,  who  once  called  this  home,  and  their  many  friends,  find  here  a  charming 
retreat  from  the  duties  and  pressing  cares  of  the  world's  life. 


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The  geographies  of  the  olden  time  used  to  give  the  characteristics  of  each  State 
in  rhyme.     Of  Vermont  they  said  : 

"  Vermont  is  famous  for  men 
And  women  and  horses  and  sugar. 
The  first  are  strong,  the  third  are  fleet, 
The  second  and  fourth  exceedingly  sweet, 
And  all  exceedingly  hard  to  beat." 
What  is  true  of  the  State  is  true  in  the  superlative  degree  of  this  town.     You  are 
all  familiar  with  the  process  of  preparing  sugar.     They  get  an  enormous  amount  of 
sap  and  boil  it  down  for  a  long  time,  until  the  sweet  crystals  appear.     Castletoa  is 
Vermont  boiled  down.     And,  Mr.  President,  as  you  seem  to  insinuate  something  in  this 
direction  in  calling  upon  me,  I  may  say  that  this  is  especially  true  of  Castleton  women. 
Ye  returning  gallants  of  an  older  generation,  who  learned,  perhaps  loved,  to  appre- 
ciate the  charms  of  maidens  then  young  and  frolicsome,  tell  your  friends  in  your 
widely  scattered  homes  that  the  village  girls  are  as  lovely  and  sprightly  as  ever.     And 
if  any  worthy  young  men  wish  to  "  sugar  off"  the  matrimonial  caldron   by  placing 
Cupid's  fires  beneath,  they  can  find  no  sweeter,  choicer  crystals  than  in  the  valley  sur- 
rounded by  the  green  hills  of  Castleton. 

6.     The  Corporation: 

The  grave  guardians  of  great  interests,  their  labors  have  not  been  without  fruit 
nor  their  anxieties  without  reward. 

RESPONSE  BY  PRESIDENT  A.  K  ADAMS, 

OF  FAIR  HAVEN",    VT. 

I  am  asked  to  respond  to  the  double  toast — "  The  Corporation  *'  and  '^  The  State  Nor- 
mal School" — the  former,  ^'The  grave  guardians  of  great  interests,"  the  latter,  ^'The 
evolution  of  the  times."  I  can  truly  say  that  these  are  my  sentiments  ;  and  speaking 
for  the  Board  of  Trustees,  with  which  I  happen  to  be  officially  connected,  I  can  also  say 
that  whether  the  interests  of  education  here  are  committed  to  our  care  because  we  are 
grave,  or  we  are  called  grave  because  these  great  interests  are  committed  to  us,  we 
realize  how  great  and  serious  these  interests  are.  We  are  mindful  that  they  are  to  be 
treated  in  earnest,  since  they  are  vitally  linked  with  the  character,  the  life,  and  work, 
and  happiness  of  the  hundreds  of  our  young  men  and  women  who,  all  up  and  down 
our  many  hills  and  valleys,  are  the  pride  and  glory  of  Vermont. 

This  school  has  much  to  do  with  the  kind  of  society  which  shall  exist  hereafter  in 
our  beautiful  towns  and  villages.  To  show  that  the  members  of  the  board  have  real- 
ized the  greatness  of  their  trust  in  former  years,  needs  but  a  reference  to  what  the 
Seminary  and  Normal  School  have  done  and  to  the  names  of  some  of  the  members. 
As  single  illustrations,  I  may  call  to  your  minds  our  venerable  friend  and  associate, 
who  is  with  us  to-day,  Hon.  Merritt  Clark  of  Poultney,  84  years  of  age  and  for  over 
fifty  years  a  member  of  the  board,  who  has  read  a  poem  prepared  by  himself;  the 
brothers  A.  W.  and  P.  W.  Hyde,  B.  F.  Adams  and  C.  S.  Sherman,  all  of  whom,  with 
others,  the  people  of  Castleton  and  friends  of  the  school  elsewhere  will  have  occasion 
long  to  remember  for  their  benefactions  and  labors. 

So  far  as  the  present  work  of  the  school  is  concerned,  under  the  present  able 
corps  of  teachers  and  with  the  present  appropriation  from  the  State,  we  are  sure  we 


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have  cause  for  congi*atulation  and  satisfaction.  Our  concern  and  anxiety  are  as  to 
what  will  be  done  later  on,  if  the  State  should  fail  to  renew  its  support,  and  when 
Prof.  Leavenworth  cannot  give  it  his  personal  interest  and  attention.  Verily,  it  becomes 
the  friends  of  education  to  consider  seriously  the  problem.  I  trust  the  State  will  see  the 
propriety  of  taking  a  much  larger  interest  in  its  Normal  Schools,  and  do  still  more 
than  it  has  yet  done,  to  prepare  our  young  men  and  women  to  be  the  teachers  of  the 
coming  generations.  Other  States  see  and  understand  what  is  their  interest  in  this 
respect.     Nearly  all  the  States  maintain  one  or  more  Normal  Schools. 

I  am  not  opposed  to  classical  learning.  I  believe  most  sincerely  in  its  benefits, 
and  would  gladly  see  every  teacher  equipped  with  a  knowledge  of  more  than  one  lan- 
guage, but,  as  Prof.  Leavenworth  has  so  well  said,  the  English  is  a  classic  as  taught  in 
his  school,  and  it  is  better  to  have  this  thoroughly  and  well  learned  than  to  have  a  part 
of  some  other  and  not  this.  It  is  my  conviction  that  the  Republican  State,  in  order  to 
be  consistent,  must  furnish  to  its  citizens  opportunity  for  every  measure  and  kind  of  educa- 
tion, that  is,  with  advanced,  secondary  and  collegiate  schools — as  is  done  in  Michi- 
gan. Primary  schools  require  the  grammar  school  and  college  to  make  them  what 
they  should  be  ;  and  it  is  not  right  for  a  government  like  ours  to  leave  to  individual  or 
denominational  effort  the  broad,  unsectarian  training  which  the  American  youth  and 
citizen  require.  I  believe  that  the  general  government,  no  less  than  the  several  States 
may  justly  and  fittingly  serve  the  people  in  this  function  and  way.  What  nobler  ser- 
vice can  it  render? 

While  I  hold  that  every  teacher  should  set  a  good  example  and  teach  the  princi- 
ples of  right  conduct,  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  what  is  generally  known  as  religious 
teaching,  or  sectarianism,  is  out  of  place  in  the  schools  of  the  State,  which  belong  of 
right  to  all  the  people  alike,  many  of  whom  have  conscientious  exceptions  or  objec- 
tions to  what  others  regard  as  essential.     As  all  desire  the  best  things  and  disavow 
whatsoever  tends  to  destroy  or  hurt  the  peace  and  happiness  and  good  of  society  and 
of  individuals,  there  is  substantial  unity  on  the  really  great  things  of  human  life ;  and  it 
is  concerning  those  things  which  are  abstract  and  not  truly  essential  that  difierences 
actually  exist.     Hence  I  claim  that  sectarianism  has  no  place  or  right  in  the  public 
school  of  the  people.     I  refer  to  this  now  because  I  understood  the  principal  speaker  of 
the  morning  to  advocate  '^sectarian"  instruction  in  the  public  schools  of  the  State,     I 
think,  however,  that  he  would  hardly  go  so  far  as  to  advise  that  denominational  schools 
should  supercede  and  displace  the  non-sectarian  State  schools.     There  is  room  for  great 
variety.     It  is  our  business  to  maintain  the  schools  of  the  State,  and  to  see  that  they 
are  what  they  can  be,  what  they  should  be,  for  all,  the  poor  as  well  as  the  rich,  and  as 
good  as  any  schools  can  be  made. 
7.     The  Press : 

Ever  foremost  in  advocating  the  cause  of  education,  it  has  been  the  comrade  of 
the  school  in  the  battle  against  ignorance,  and  together  they  will  educate  the  world. 

It  was  expected  that  Ool.  Albert  Clarke,  editor  of  the  Eutland  Herald,  and 
Rev.  T.  L.  Drury,  editor  of  the  Rutland  Telegram,  who  were  present,  would 
respond  to  this  toast,  but  both  gentlemen  were  obliged  to  leave  before  this  part  of 
the  programme  was  reached. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  regular  toasts  remarks  were  made  by  Rev.  Samuel 
Storrs  Howe,  the  oldest  living  principal,  full  of  humorous  and  pathetic  reminis- 
cences of  his  early  life,  and  well-spiced  with  amusing  anecdotes  of  student  life  in 
the  early  history  of  the  school. 


Extracts  from  Letters 


Hon.  Walter  E.  Howard,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Correspondence,  then 
read  extracts  from  a  few  of  the  many  letters  received  from  former  teachers  and 
pupils. 

Oswego,  JST.  Y.,  April  20,  1887. 

I  find  your  circular  of  March  last,  on  my  return  home,  and  am  gratified  to  know 
that  you  propose  to  celebrate  the  centennial  of  your  widely-known  school.  It  is 
a  good  many  years  since  I  have  been  in  Castleton,  but  I  have  never  lost  my  interest 
in  its  school.  At  this  distance  of  time  I  am  unable  to  promise  myself  the  pleas- 
ure of  being  present,  which  certainly  would  be  a  great  pleasure  to  me. 

Very  truly  yours, 

JOHN  C.  CHUKOHILL. 

Ray  Brook,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  1,  1887. 

Your  letter  addressed  to  me  at  Oswego  arrived  there  after  I  had  left  home  for 
my  summer  vacation,  and  has  followed  me  to  this  place.  My  wife  and  daughter  are 
with  me  here  and  our  plans  are  such  that  I  do  not  see  how  I  can  be  in  Castleton 
on  the  10th  instant.  I  regret  it  very  much,  as  it  would  be  a  great  pleasure  to  me 
to  revisit  the  familiar  scenes,  and  to  meet  again  former  pupils  and  friends,  whom  I 
should  be  very  glad  to  see.  Should  any  change  in  our  plans  make  it  possible  for  me 
to  be  there,  I  shall  certainly  come,  but  I  do  not  anticipate  it  now.  I  shall  be  very 
glad  to  receive  the  programme  of  your  exercises,  and  the  account,  which  will,  of 
course,  be  published,  of  the  occurrences  of  the  day.  Please  remember  me  to  any 
who  may  attend  who  were  of  my  time  at  .the  Seminary,  and  believe  me. 

Very  truly  yours, 

JOHN  C.  CHUECHILL. 

WiLLiAMSTOWK,  Mass.,  July  5,  1887. 

I  should  be  most  glad  to  see  you  all  August  10,  but  cannot  now  say  positively  that 
I  shall  go.  We  had  a  very  pleasant  visit  from  Dr.  Langdon.  He  has  become  a  man 
of  wide  culture.  As  to  the  old  teachers — J.  C.  Churchill  is  lawyer  or  judge  in  Buf- 
falo or  Rochester,  I  am  not  positive  which  city.  He  was  principal  teacher  about 
'43.  Rev.  Wm.  Tufts  lives  now,  I  think,  in  Monson,  Mass.  Miss  Warren,  also  a 
teacher,  is  now  his  wife.  He  taught  in  '45  and  '46.  Mr.  Petty,  who  followed  me 
in  1849,  is  a  professor  in  Burlington,  Vt.  Mary  Ann  Shattuck  is,  I  think,  in  Cal- 
ifornia. She  taught  primary  classes  while  I  was  there  in  1847-'49.  Miss  Hayden 
you  know  about.  Mr.  Wainwright  is  somewhere  west.  Mr.  Langdon  can  tell  you. 
Miss  Lawrence,  now  Mrs.  General  Hopkins,  is  in  Rutland.  Prof.  Daniel  Gorham, 
now  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  taught  classes  to  some  extent.  Jolin  Curtis,  now  of 
Dorset,  Vt.,  was  a  successful  teacher  of  mathematics,  while  we  were  fitting  for  col- 
lege in  1842-43.  Dr.  George  N.  Boardman,  now  of  Chicago,  and  Dr.  Samuel 
Boardman,  now  of  New  Jersey,  were  residents  of  Castleton,  as  you  know,  and 


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students.  Samuel  was  a  principal  teacher  about  1850.  1  am  glad  you  invite  Hon. 
John  Gilbert  to  speak.  There  were  seven  of  those  Gilberts  at  once — brothers 
and  sisters — all  noble  ones ;  Simeon  Gilbert  is  editor  of  the  Advance,  Chicago. 
Dr.  Hooker,  now  of  Winter  Park,  Florida,  and  his  brother  of  Milwaukee, 
were  both  excellent  students  and  originated  in  Oastleton,  as  you  know.  Miss  Jeff- 
ries, teacher  of  French  while  I  was  teacher  there,  is  dead,  I  think.  Mr.  Dean, 
teacher  of  music,  is  gone,  I  know  not  where.  Mr.  Hope,  teacher  of  painting,  is  dead, 
I  think.  Mr.  John  Horr,  a  native  of  Oastleton,  became  an  eminent  teacher  in 
Brookline,  near  Boston,  and  I  think  did  some  teaching  of  classes  in  Oastleton. 
He  studied  with  me  for  sophomore  year  in  college.  So  also  of  Maynard.  These 
items  give  you  no  information,  probably,  that  you  do  not  already  have,  but  they 
come  into  my  mind  and  I  jot  them  down.  With  many  pleasant  recollections  of  the 
old  Seminary  and  of  the  good  people  of  Oastleton,  we  are,  yours, 

MR.  AISTD  MRS.  W.  W.  WINCHESTER. 

Parsoi^age  1st  Presbyteriak  Church,  ) 
Stanhope,  N.  J.,  August  8,  1887.         [ 

As  a  former  pupil  and  teacher  in  Oastleton  Seminary,  I  desire  to  send  most 
hearty  congratulations  on  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  its  establishment.  My 
honored  father,  near  the  end  of  the  first  quarter  of  that  century,  as  I  suppose,  my 
three  brothers  and  myself,  within  the  third  quarter  of  the  century,  received  from 
that  honored  institution  an  important  part  of  our  education.  It  is  just  fifty  years 
since  our  indulgent  father  removed  to  Oastleton  for  the  purpose,  chiefly,  of  giving 
to  his  children  such  advantages.  The  school  had  then  for  a  long  time  enjoyed  a 
high  reputation  under  such  excellent  principals  as  Henry  Howe,  Solomon  Foot,  and 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  Walker.  Many  eminent  men  had  received  their  academic  educa- 
tion in  Oastleton.  Six  college  valedictorians,  as  they  afterwards  became,  at  Middle- 
bury,  Yale,  and  perhaps  elsewhere,  were  there,  I  think,  at  the  same  time — a  little 
after  1820. 

The  late  distinguished  professor  and  author,  Rev.  Edwin  Hal),  D.  D.,  of 
Auburn,  N.  Y.,  was  accustomed  to  speak  with  great  interest  of  the  enthusiasm  in 
classical  studies  at  Oastleton  Academy  under  the  able  administration  of  that  supe- 
rior scholar  and  teacher,  Principal  Howe. 

My  first  recollections  of  the  seminary  are  associated  with  the  work  of  Rev. 
Edward  J.  Hallock,  who  first  came  to  Oastleton  to  supply  for  a  time,  during  the 
illness  of  the  pastor,  the  pulpit  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Hallock  had  valuable  qualities,  to  which  many,  now  scattered  in  all  parts 
of  the  country  are  indebted,  and  the  writer  among  the  number.  He  acquired  the 
epithet  *'  Old,"  before  he  was  entitled  to  it  by  his  years,  but  it  was  not  altogether 
without  a  certain  respect,  affection  and  good  nature,  on  the  part  of  his  pupils.  His 
service,  as  principal,  was,  I  think,  the  longest,  and  not  the  least  effective,  as  seen 
in  the  educated  women  and  men  whom  he  sent  into  the  world. 

Among  the  teachers  at  Oastleton,  have  been  a  distinguished  United  States 
senator ;  several  members  of  congress,  judges  and  other  civil  officers  ;  tutors  and 
professors  in  colleges  ;  and  men  and  women  useful  and  distinguished  in  almost 
every  walk  of  life. 

Our  brilliant  young  teacher,  Capt.  and  Dr.  Selah  Qridley  Perkin?,  then  only 
twenty  years  of  age,  deserves  a  word  of  homage  to  his  heroic  memory.     There  was 


38  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

always  to  me  a  peculiar  fascination  in  tlie  exceeding  brilliancy  of  his  eye,  and  the 
intelligent  radiance  of  his  countenance,  from  my  earliest  remembrance  of  him  in 
boyhood — the  scholarly  son  of  our  greatly  esteemed  physician.  We  shall  never  for- 
get his  graceful  and  elegant  geniality  in  the  class-room,  his  literary  aptness,  his  good 
scholarship,  and  his  pleasant  friendliness  at  all  times.  With  something  of  the 
brilliant  chivalry  of  Lord  Byron  in  Greece,  our  patriotic  teacher,  who  was  himself 
not  without  genius,  gave  his  life  for  his  country.  He  gave  what  President  Lincoln 
at  Gettysburg  called  the  last  full  measure  of  devotion,  that  this  nation  might 
have  a  new  birth  of  freedom,  and  popular  government  not  perish  from  the  earth. 
Dulce  et  decorum  est  pro  patria  mori. 

From  February  to  October,  1853,  I  was  classical  teacher  in  the  seminary.  The 
catalogue  which  was  published  in  the  summer  of  that  year  contains  218  names. 
Of  these  85  were  from  Castleton.  One  of  those  pupils  is  now  president  of  a  college, 
one  is  a  doctor  of  divinity,  and  another  a  doctor  of  laws.  One,  Capt.  M.  P.  S. 
Cadwell,  a  graduate  afterward  from  Middlebury  College,  was  killed  at  the  second 
battle  of  Bull  Run.  I  enjoyed  very  much  the  year  spent  there  in  teaching.  I  am  as 
grateful  to-day  as  I  was  in  October,  1853,  for  the  generous  tokens  of  kind 
regard  presented  to  me  by  the  young  ladies,  and  also  by  the  young  gentlemen, 
separately,  at  evening  prayers,  on  the  last  day  of  my  connection  with  the  seminary. 
I  have  never  witnessed  just  such  an  occasion.  Time  has  not  diminished  in  the 
least  degree  the  deep  and  kind  feeling,  and  even  tenderness,  which  seemed  to 
exist  between  us,  though  I  have  scarcely  looked  in  many  of  those  endeared  faces, 
then  young,  for  a  whole  generation.  To  as  many  of  my  pupils  as  may  be  at 
Castleton,  I  wish  to  send  cordial,  affectionate  greetings,  though  we  should  meet  no 
more  in  this  world.  I  would  feel  greatly  obliged  to  any  who  would  write  to 
me.  As  we  used  to  look  over,  dear  pupils,  from  the  hills  of  Vermont,  westward 
upon  the  sunny  Adirondacks,  glorified  in  the  rosy  light  of  evening,  so  let  us  look 
forward  to  the  future  as  bright  with  immortal  beauty,  in  the  Christian  life  before 
us  both  here  and  hereafter. 

Kecurring  to  my  own  teachers,  I  desire  to  make  grateful  mention  of  the  Hon. 
John  C.  Churchill,  LL.  D.,  a  member  of  congress,  and  judge  of  the  supreme  court 
of  New  York,  who  gave  me  my  first  and  most  thorough  lessons  in  Greek  ;  and  of 
Eev.  James  Tufts  of  Monson,  Mass.,  a  life-long  teacher,  who  taught  me  Demos- 
thenes and  Shakespeare.  Of  Darius  Maynard,  John  Steele,  Samuel  Langdon,  Dan- 
iel Howard,  George  Squier,  M.  P.  S.  Cadwell,  Argalus  Squier,  and  all  as  many  as 
have  passed  on  before  us  from  this  mortal  world,  my  cherished  pupils  at  Castleton, 
and  some  of  them  afterward  in  Middlebury  College,  I  desire  to  express  a  sacred  and 
affectionate  remembrance.  There  was  one  nearer  than  all  others,  who  was  a  pupil 
and  teacher  there,  who  also  found  Christ  her  Savior  there,  who  with  myself,  and 
with  a  multitude  of  others,  will  forever  remember  with  sacred  gratitude  Castleton 
Seminary. 

Respectfully  yours,  etc.,  etc., 

N    SAMUEL  W.  BOARDMAK 

Galesburg,  hi.,  August  8,  1887. 

I  wish  most  heartily  to  congratulate  you  and  other  friends  of  the  seminary  on 
the  auspicious  circumstances  in  which  you  are  to  celebrate  its  centennial. 


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I  very  mucli  regret  that  in  the  few  minutes  now  allowed  me,  I  am  unable  to 
contribute  anything  of  importance  to  the  history  of  the  institution.  I  was  con- 
nected with  it  but  three  years,  while  resting  from  pastoral  work,  and  though  in 
that  time  I  trust  something  was  done  to  be  counted  among  the  incalculable  benefits 
it  has  conferred  upon  the  community  and  the  world,  my  part  in  its  history  and 
great  work  was  comparatively  unimportant.  I  think  the  average  number  of  students 
while  I  had  charge  of  it  scarcely  exceeded  one  hundred,  though  we  sometimes  had 
one  hundred  and  fifty  or  more. 

My  entrance  upon  the  work  of  instruction  and  direction  was  much  as  if  it  had 
been  a  new  institution,  as  the  more  advanced  pupils  of  previous  years  had  either 
graduated  or  otherwise  finished  their  studies,  so  that  for  the  first  year  I  had  no 
graduating  class  and  but  a  very  small  one  the  second.  Of  some  of  these  however, 
and  of  most  or  all  of  the  ten  graduates  of  the  following  year,  I  could  confidently 
predict,  if  life  and  health  should  be  continued  to  them,  what  1  am  glad  to  know  is 
true,  for  they  have  already  made  their  mark  in  the  world  ;  and  the  same  might  be  said 
of  hundreds  of  others  who  took  a  more  limited  course  of  study,  or  who  remained  to 
complete  their  studies  with  my  successors.  I  would  like  to  mention  the  names  of 
some  whom  I  shall  ever  hold  in  pleasant  remembrance,  but  so  many  equally  worthy 
of  honorable  mention  must  be  omitted  that  I  leave  them  all  to  your  own  knowledge 
and  their  report  of  themselves. 

Trusting  that  in  time  to  come,  as  in  time  past,  the  institution  may  be  greatly 
prospered  in  its  good  work  of  Christian  education  and  with  kind  remembrances  for 
all  the  many  personal  friends  who  may  remember  me, 

I  remain  very  truly  and  sincerely  yours, 

AZAKIAH  HYDE. 

823  ISToRTH  4:0th  Stkeet,     ) 
Philadelphia,  May  13,  1887.  j 

I  am  always  glad  to  be  reminded  of  the  seminary,  as  I  enjoyed  the  year  I  taught 
there  very  much.  There  was  at  that  time  in  Castleton  and  its  vicinity,  as  I  pre- 
sume there  continues  to  be,  a  certain  alertness  of  mind  which  made  the  work  of  the 
teacher  no  toil,  but  a  pleasure. 

With  a  loving  remembrance  to  former  scholars  and  friends,  and  earnest  good 
wishes  for  the  future  prosperity  of  the  school, 

I  am,  yours  sincerely, 

ANJSTA  S.  EEED. 

35  Waverly  Place,  \ 

Grand  Kapids,  Mich.,  July  28,  1887.  ] 

Many  thanks  for  the  circular  of  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  "  Centennial 
Celebration,"  which  came  in  due  time,  but  which  I  delayed  acknowledging,  hoping 
to  be  able  to  say,  "I  shall  be  with  you."  ]N"ow  I  find  this  to  be  impossible,  and  am 
so  disappointed  that  words  cannot  express  my  regret. 

It  has  been  the  one  great  longing  of  my  heart  to  visit  once  more  that  old  and 
cherished  seminary — to  look  upon  the  lovely  village  of  Castleton,  and  to  meet 
dearly-loved  schoolmates,  pupils,  and  friends.  What  time  more  befitting  than  the- 
one  hundredth  anniversary  ? 


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But  there  is  nothing  for  me  save  to  send  love  and  greetings  to  each  and  to  all, 
with  many  regrets  that  I  cannot  share  the  good  times  and  good  things  of  that  event- 
ful day. 

Very  truly  and  affectionately, 

HARRIET  S.  NASH. 

I  wish  you  all  the  good  things  of  this  life  ;  a  sustaining  hope  and  a  blessed 
fruition  of  a  promised  home  in  the  "Father's  House." 

R.  a.  WILLIAMS. 

Iron"  Springs  Hotel,  > 

Manitou  Spri]S"GS,  Colo.,  Aug.  2,  1887.  ( 

How  often  our  best  laid  plans  come  to  naught,  and  this'naught  has  overtaken  me. 
I  left  Monticello  with  my  plans  all  formed,  and  as  I  thought  perfected,  for  a  sojourn 
in  the  Rockies  during  July  and  then  the  long  journey  over  the  plains  and  across  the 
states  to  good  old  Castleton  for  August  10th.  To  accomplish  this  I  must  leave 
tomorrow,  but  my  neice,  Lizzie,  has  met  with  an  unfortunate  accident  which  for- 
bids my  leaving — a  severe  sprain  of  ankle  and  foot  confining  her  in  one  position  for 
days  and  perhaps  weeks.  Miss  Alden  and  myself  regret  these  forbidding  circum- 
stances of  distance  and  accident  exceedingly,  but  cannot  overcome  them, 

Castleton  Seminary  is  very  dear  to  me.  The  impressions  there  made  upon  my 
brain  in  early  youth  (for  I  was  but  twelve  years  old  and  counted  the  baby  in  the 
household  when  I  entered)  come  vividly  to  me  in  my  dreams  these  later  years. 
Rev.  Mr.  Hallock  —  I  honor  and  count  him,  in  his  day,  a  king  among  helpers  to 
young  women  seeking  an  education  somewhere  within  sight  of  that  offered  the 
brothers.  Miss  Mary  Warren,  his  able  assistant  at  that  time,  I  loved  with  all  my 
little  heart  and  owe,  now,  much  to  her  in  gratitude  and  respect.  If  she  is  present 
at  the  jubilation,  give  her  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  and  love  from  White  Hatly 
Haskell. 

Those  days,  forty  years  in  the  long  ago,  when  I  ran  wild  over  the  hills  with 
Prof.  Wood  for  flowers  and  sat  mute  on  the  side  of  brooks,  (fearing  to  drive  away 
the  trout),  with  Prof.  Goldsmith  of  the  medical  college,  when  from  the  rear  fence 
I  filled  my  pillow-slip  with  delicious  apples  from  B.  F.  Adams'  orchard,  or  my 
carpetbag  with  watermelons  from  good  Father  Spencer's  patch,  were  not  much 
filled  with  study,  but  developed  an  energy  and  strength  of  body  which  has  served 
me  without  faltering  nearly  a  half  century.  And  the  later  years  from  1861  to  1867, 
when  I  held  the  principalship,  are  years  never  to  be  forgotten.  I  send  good  cheer 
to  all  who  may  be  with  you  and  would  lovingly  bring  a  worthy  tribute  to  our 
sainted  dead.  Such  names  as  Fanny  Pendleton,  Nelly  Speed,  Eliza  Gracia,  Emma 
Willard,  Frances  Burt,  should  be  spoken  softly  at  this  gathering  of  friends.  The 
many  students  and  teachers  of  these  hundred  years,  who  have  in  their  various 
spheres  uplifted  human  living  and  done  most  excellent  service  for  the  church,  for 
Christ,  whether  beyond  the  shadows,  or  in  the  resting  places  after  battle,  or  in  the 
thick  of  the  fight,  should  be  reverently  remembered  at  this  centennial. 

May  the  Lord  bless  all  and  cause  His  face  to  shine  on  all  who  gather  at  the- 
feast. 

Yours,  with  love, 

(Miss)  H.  N.  HASKELL. 


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AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES.  41 

Ukderhill,  Vt.,  Aug.  6,  1887. 

Your  card  is  received.  Accept  thanks  for  your  cordial  reminder  and  invitation. 
I  regret  to  say  that  it  does  not  seem  possible  for  me  to  be  present  next  week. 
That  it  would  afford  me  great  pleasure  to  be  with  you  goes  without  saying.  It 
will  be  a  joyful  occasion,  no  doubt.     For  many  reasons  it  would  be  such  to  me. 

The  old  institution  has  had  an  honored  place  among  the  educational  forces  of 
the  State,  and  especially  of  Kutland  county,  and  it  has  a  large  place  in  the  regard 
of  its  especial  friends.  I  hope  you  will  exert  your  influence,  however,  to  moderate 
the  glorification  of  the  institution  and  keep  it  within  the  limit  of  the  facts,  which 
will  be  assumed  to  be  grand  enough  when  it  is  remembered  who  have  been  in  the 
honored  line  of  instructors. 

Sit  hard  on  the  valve  and  keep  a  firm  grip  on  the  throttle  when  those  hot- 
headed ones  are  on  their  feet,  like  the  Higleys,  Boardmans,  Flaggs,  etc.  You  will 
have  a  grand  time  meeting  the  old  friends.  Say  to  any  of  them  who  will  care  to 
remember  me,  that  the  years  do  not  attenuate  but  strengthen  the  cords  of  these 
early  friendships.  Age  and  maturity  become  interpreters  of  much  that  was  mean- 
ingless, because  not  understood  in  the  rushing  times  of  youth.  When  men  put  on 
their  glasses  they  read  more  between  the  lines  of  the  early  history  than  was  con- 
sciously writ  or  read  in  the  making  of  it.  I  would  be  glad  to  renew  the  life  I  once 
lived  in  the  old  Sem,  even  though  but  for  a  day,  by  grasping  the  hands  once  so 
plump  and  juicy,  but  now  growing  sinewy  like  mine.  The  music  of  oldest  and 
dryest  '*  gut "  is  said  to  be  most  heavenly,  is  it  not  ?  I  reckon  the  friendships  that 
have  lost  their  flabbiness  and  coarseness  and  materialism  by  an  apparent  shrinkage 
in  sound  and  expression,  are  all  the  tougher  in  fibre,  the  sweeter  and  richer. 
If  you  meet  any  of  this  sort  of  friends,  please  put  my  thought  into  your  own 
graceful  English  while  you  shake  their  hands  once  extra  for  me. 
Hoping  for  the  best  of  times,  I  am 

J.  K.  W. 

Rock  Falls,  111.,  April  12,  1887. 

Your  kind  note  of  invitation  to  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  Castleton 
School  awakens  the  memories  of  forty  years  ago,  when  I  was  a  student  at  the  Sem- 
inary. If  I  have  met  with  any  success  in  life,  I  attribute  that  success  largely  to  the 
•*  bent"  the  "  twig"  received  while  at  that  institution.  For  earnest,  effective  teach- 
ing, and  thorough,  persevering  study,  I  have  never  seen  a  school  that  surpassed  Cas- 
tleton Seminary.  But  who  could  be  dull  under  the  management  of  E.  J.  Hallock  ? 
His  enthusiasm  awakened  our  sympathy  ;  his  genial  kindness  won  our  respect,  and 
even  his  scathing  rebukes  commanded  our  admiration.  Then  no  one  would  find  it 
pleasant  to  make  a  failure  in  recitation  under  the  rigid  discipline  of  Jonathan  Lane. 
The  surprise  which  he  manifested  at  any  ignorance  of  the  lesson  was  something  to 
be  avoided.  But  the  prizes  which  stimulated  to  still  greater  exertion  were  the 
approving  smile  of  W.  W.  Winchester  and  the  charming  personal  friendship  of  Miss 
Severance.  If  you  will  look  on  the  yellow  skirting  of  the  old  stairway,  upper  hall, 
gentlemen's  department,  you  will  see  diagrams  for  demonstration  in  geometry  or 
trigonometry,  and  vocabularies  of  Greek  words  we  were  obliged  to  commit  to  mem- 
ory. These  will  attest  to  the  diligence  with  which  we  improved  our  time.  But 
there  were  other  lessons  to  be  learned  quite  as  valuable  as  those  from  books.  Many 
of  us  came  directly  from  the  farms  and  at  that  time  there  were  not  so  many  sources 

6 


42  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES, 

of  refinement  at  the  farmer's  home  as  you  will  now  find.  In  fact  the  farmer's  boys 
were  awkward  and  diffident,  and  the  girls  had  only  their  natural  tact  and  winsome 
faces  to  save  them  from  the  same  fate.  But  how  quickly  the  boys  lost  their  verdancy 
and  the  girls  became  "  young  ladies,"  under  the  gentle  and  refining  tutelage  of  the 
preceptress,  Miss  Hayden.  Her  pleasant  conversations  on  social  etiquette,  and  her 
timely  hints  at  "common  parlor  visits"  were  more  valuable  to  each  student  than  a 
volume  of  Chesterfield  or  a  season  at  Saratoga.  How  distinctly  your  circular  recalls 
the  names  and  peculiarities  of  many  students  with  whom  I  was  associated.  0.  E. 
King  Sherman  was  a  king  in  appearance  and  manners.  Deodatus  D.  Haskell  was 
the  envy  of  all  *'  bumpkins."  He  was  the  universal  favorite  among  the  gentlemen 
and  the  "  ladies-man  "  par  excellence*  No  one  could  have  a  truer  friend  or  more 
congenial  companion  than  "Bill"  Perkins.  His  drollery  was  only  surpassed  by  that  of 
A.  V.  Colburn.  I  have  heard  Albert  sing  "  Our  old  hen  she  crossed  the  road  because 
she  crossed  the  road,  sir  ;  and  the  reason  why  she  crossed  the  road,  was,  'cause  she 
crossed  the  road,  sir,"  in  front  of  the  ladies'  piazza  at  least  a  dozen  times  in  succes- 
sion, in  response  to  calls  from  the  ladies,  and  each  time  it  would  be  sung  with  the 
same  earnest  pathos.  Poor  fellow  !  he  was  cut  down  at  the  beginning  of  a  brilliant 
career.  Henry  Edgerton  was  a  jolly  companion,  and  made  a  vast  amount  of  trouble, 
not  only  for  the  teachers  but  for  the  faculty,  but  his  translations  from  Virgil  would 
be  listened  to  with  rapt  attention  by  teacher  and  class,  and  Prof.  Tufts  would  say: 
"  Very  poetical,  but  the  construction  is  altogether  too  liberal."  And  when  I  read 
in  the  daily  papers  the  report  of  an  address  of  welcome  to  (xen.  Grant,  upon  his 
arrival  from  his  foreign  tour,  I  saw  the  same  classical  language,  and  could  almost 
hear  the  musical  tones  which  gave  such  a  charm  to  his  recitations  in  the  -^neid. 

I  have  quite  as  pleasant  recollections  of  my  acquaintance  with  the  ladies  of  the 
"  Sem,"  but  as  they  are  still  young — in  my  memory — I  do  not  feel  at  liberty  to 
mention  names.  The  pleasant  greetings  at  the  table,  the  discussions  in  recitation, 
the  familiar  conversations  at  the  "  common  parlor  visits,"  and  the  occasional  stolen 
walks,  will  all  be  remembered  for  a  lifetime. 

Although  I  shall  not  be  able  to  attend  the  exercises  at  the  anniversary,  I  thank 
you  for  the  circular  of  invitation,  and  trust  I  may  receive  the  same  tokens  of  your 
kindly  recognition  in  the  distribution  of  the  reports  of  the  meeting. 

Very  truly  yours, 

GROVE  WRIGHT. 

FAiiiriELD,  Conn.,  May  17,  1887. 

The  circular  announcing  the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  Castleton  Semi- 
nary, August  10th,  has  been  received.  As  two  very  happy  years  of  my  school  life 
were  passed  in  that  institution,  under  Miss  Haskell's  successful  as  well  as  jolly 
reign,  it  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  be  present  at  the  re-union,  although  I 
must  confess  that  in  the  ups  and  downs  of  this  topsy-turvy  world  I  have  lost  sight 
of  nearly  every  one  of  my  schoolmates,  finding  it  difficult  to  even  recall  their 
names.  Hoping  this  one-hundredth  anniversary  will  be  a  perfect  success  in  every 
way, 

I  am,  yours  truly, 

MARY  B.  KIPPElSr, 

Known  to  the  friends  of  my  school  days  as  "  Kipp.' 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  43 

Groton,  Mass.,  July  20,  1887. 

Ifc  will  not  be  possible  for  me  to  attend  the  centennial  celebration  on  the  tenth 
of  August.  I  sympathize  fully  with  the  purpose  of  the  proposed  gathering  and 
hope  it  may  be  a  large  one.  I  am  sure  it  will  be  an  enthusiastic  one,  if  any  con- 
siderable number  of  those  who  are  indebted  to  the  school  are  present,  and  express 
the  sentiments  of  loyalty  and  affection  which  are  shared  in  by  the  great  company 
who  have  been  members  of  the  institution. 

I  was  a  scholar  at  the  seminary  under  the  administrations  of  Mr.  Hallock  (dur- 
ing his  last  year),  Mr.  Hyde  and  Mr.  Knowlton.  The  teachers  whom  I  recall  with 
especial  gratitude  and  affection,  are  Mr.  Knowlton  and  Mr.  Watts.  The  latter  died 
in  early  manhood,  but  I  trust  the  former  will  be  present  at  the  celebration.  His 
exact  scholarship  and  personal  interest  in  his  pupils  left  an  abiding  influence  on  all 
who  enjoyed  his  instructions. 

With  congratulations  upon  the  present  prosperity  of  the  school,  and  hearty 
greetings. 

Very  truly  yours, 

EDWra  H.  HIGLEY. 

93  Mt.  Vern-qn"  Street,  ) 

Boston,  July  24,  1887.  j 

I  have  delayed  answering  your  kind  invitation  to  the  centennial  celebration  of 
Castleton  Seminary,  hoping  circumstances  might  admit  of  my  accepting  it.  As  it 
turns  out,  however,  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  be  present,  I  must  e'en  despatch  the 
*'  letter  of  greeting  and  good  cheer  "  which  you  request  as  the  alternative. 

Our  school  had  advanced  but  seventy  years  in  her  century,  when  it  happened, 
in  rather  an  accidental  manner,  that  I  fell  heir  to  the  French  classes,  for  the  year 
1857-8,  under  the  regime  of  the  Rev'd  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hyde. 

My  rooms  were  on  the  landing  of  a  side  staircase  at  the  end  of  a  corridor,  and 
although  it  is  probable  they  were  comfortably  furnished,  I  recall  but  one  solitary 
article  in  them,  and  that  is  a  little,  old-fashioned,  iron  box-stove  for  burning  wood. 
Either  the  pipe  was  too  short  to  reach  the  hole  in  the  wall,  or  the  hole  was  too  high 
for  the  length  of  the  pipe,  or  else  the  legs  were  not  long  enough  to  effect  necessary 
connection,  at  all  events  a  leg-extension  was  furnished  in  the  shape  of  four  blocks  of 
wood,  upon  which  the  stove  tilted  dangerously  or  from  which  it  tumbled  ignomin- 
iously,  according  to  circumstances.  Circumstances  were  so  often  favorable  for  the 
tumbling  act,  that  a  fire  brigade  was  organized  to  protect  the  treasures  in  that  cor- 
ridor. Whenever  the  stove  upset,  a  concerted  whistle  brought  the  fire-women, 
trained  and  eager,  to  secure  each  the  oil  painting  assigned  to  her  individual  care. 
These  paintings — my  own  handiwork,  supposed  to  be  unique, — are,  indeed, 
still  held  in  that  estimation  by  the  juvenile  inmates  of  a  public  institution,  near 
Boston,  where  they  serve  as  a  part  of  the  penal  rewards  for  misconduct.  The 
frequent  smokings  to  which  these  canvasses  were  thus  subjected,  imparted  such  a 
rich  venerableness  of  chiaro-oscuro  that  we  always  referred  to  them  as  the  Old 
Masters  !  It  is  but  just  to  add  that  these  specimens  of  the  fine  arts  once  in 
a  place  of  safety,  the  brigade  continued  its  efforts  to  a  final  extinction  of  the  confla- 
grations, as  your  building  testifies. 

How  well  I  recall  some  of  the  students  of  that  time— earnest,  ambitious,  faith- 
ful, who  have  no  doubt  played  well  their  parts  in  life.     The  Misses  Ehle,  Nellie 


44:  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

Woodward,  Mary  Griswold,  Nellie  Beckwith,  Augusta  Busliee,  and  two  sisters  with 
soft  curls  and  dove-like  eyes,  whose  names  may  not  have  been  Sheldon,  but  some- 
how  so  stick  in  my  memory.     They  certainly  were  Mary  and  Julia. 

At  the  commencement  exercises  that  year,  the  "sweet  girl  graduates"  wore 
rather  stiff  muslin  gowns,  with  aggressively  puffed  sleeves,  according  to  the  latest 
fashion.  A  minister  from  a  neighboring  town  prayed  that  they  might  eventually 
go  to  heaven,  and  still  wear  white  ! 

Our  own  pastor  was  Dr.  Willard  Child,,  a  gentleman  whose  poetic  nature  and 
uncommon  culture  exerted  a  wonderful  influence  over  impressionable  youth.  His 
figure  is  always  tenderly  associated  with  fliy  memories  of  that  year  and  place.  Nor 
do  I  cease  to  remember  the  natural  beauty  of  Oastleton — how  her  snowy  mountains 
glowed  like  opaline  ramparts  in  the  rich  sunsets,  till  the  deep  violet  and  blushing 
rose  tints  appeared  reflected  in  every  line  of  valley  and  hillside. 

As  Mr.  Beecher  said  of  Amherst,  more  could  be  learned  outside  of  that  institu- 
tion than  in  any  other  of  the  land. 

Extending  to  all  who  remember  me,  and  who  suffered  under  my  instructions, 
the  most  cordial  regards  and  apologies,  I  remain 

Yours  very  truly, 

AUGUSTA  WARREN  KELLOGG. 

Dupage,  111.,  July  25th. 

It  is  with  pleasure  I  acknowledge  the  reception  of  your  kind  remembrance. 
My  inner  self  would  rejoice  to  be  with  you,  but  my  outward  infirmities  will  pre- 
vent. I  well  remember  the  months  of  pleasure  spent  in  the  old  Seminary.  I 
remember  in  one  of  Mr.  L.  F.  Clark's  addresses  to  the  school  he  said  '*  You  will  in 
after  years  look  back  to  the  time  spent  here  as  the  one  bright  spot  in  your  lives,"  and 
so  it  is.  I  will  send  a  catalogue.  God  bless  you  all  in  this  laudable  work,  is  the 
sincere  wish  of  your  friend, 

EMILY  R.  HIGGINS. 

Claymokt,  Del.,  July  30,  1887. 

Looking  back  through  the  mists  of  two  score  years,  the  faces  and  very  voices 
of  the  *'  merrie  companie"  who  welcomed  me  to  Castleton  Seminary  are  as  present 
to  me  as  if  the  scene  were  but  yesterday.  All  were  kind,  some  were  eager  and 
demonstrative,  and  a  few — a  very  few  of  the  gentlemen  were  a  little  distrustful  in 
manner,  whilst  all  the  ladies  were  pleasant  and  many  of  them  charming. 

But  I  cannot  see  them  in  my  mind  as  I  know  they  must  be  if  living,  gray  and 
wrinkled,  but  in  the  bloom  and  energy  of  youth,  cherishing  the  resolve  of  great 
purpose. 

How  many  of  us  have  failed  and  how  many  of  us  have  gained  the  objects  for 
which  we  started  will  not  count  in  my  affectionate  remembrance.  Suffice  it  to 
say  that  wherever  I  may  be  on  the  10th  day  of  August  my  spirit  will  be  in  Castle- 
ton in  communion  with  the  dear  old  friends  of  other  days,  and  I  beg  of  you  to  bear 
to  them  the  messages  of  love  and  faith  that  I  cannot  speak. 

With  many  thanks  and  many  hopes  I  am  yours. 

Most  sincerely, 

Wm.  0.  LODGE. 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  45 

St.  Pat;l,  Minn.,  July  31st,  1887. 

It  would  be  a  great  pleasure  to  me  to  walk  through  those  shady,  quiet  streets 
again  and  to  renew  old  friendships  and  acquaintances.  I  must  have  something  of 
the  old  Indian  in  my  nature,  for  after  the  lapse  of  so  many  years  I  find  old  feelings 
still  strong,  and  my  old  likes  and  dislikes — they  were  loves  and  hates  in  those  days 
— little  changed.  May  I  ask  you  to  give  my  kindest  remembrances  to  any  of  my 
classmates  of  the  Hoop,  1865,  as  well  as  to  all  my  old  associates.  My  beloved  sister 
Aba  died  more  than  a  year  ago,  and  lies  at  rest  on  a  sunny  hillside,  with  her  second 
son  and  an  infant  daughter  beside  her.  We  often  talked  of  the  old  Castleton  days, 
and  through  her  I  occasionally  learned  of  old  friends.  I  recall  my  last  visit  to  her  at 
the  Seminary  after  I  left  New  York,  when  I  found  her  and  the  entire  class  sus- 
pended for  various  misdemeanors  !  We  had  always  hoped  to  go  East  together  with 
our  children. 

I  sent  my  centennial  circular  to  Col.  Dayton,  who  was  in  the  Seminary  under 
Mr.  Hallock,  and  should  be  glad  if  you  could  give  me  another.  If  anything  of 
interest  upon  the  Centennial  can  be  purchased,  perhaps  you  will  send  me  the  address 
so  I  may  write. 

Hoping  I  may  have  the  pleasure  of  meeting  you,  believe  me,  I  am 

Most  sincerely  yours, 
ELIZABETH  WALBRIDGE  CLEVELAND  ALLEN. 

Lawrence,  Mass.,  August  1,  1887. 

Your  kind  invitation,  together  with  the  picture  of  the  buildings  and  park  and  the 
familiar  names  among  the  committees,  all  conspire  to  give  me  a  twinge  of  disappoint- 
ment that  I  cannot  be  present.  So  with  pleasant  memories  of  the  past  and  best 
wishes  for  the  prosperity  of  the  school  and  its  friends, 

I  am,  yours  sincerely, 

IRENE  CLARK  DURRELL. 

Pasadena,  Cal.,  August  3,  1887. 

I  should  have  written  sooner  in  acknowledgment  of  your  kind  invitation  but  for 
the  hope  that  we  might  share  in  the  delightful  reunion  of  the  friends  of  Castleton 
Seminary. 

It  is  a  very  great  deprivation  to  Dr.  Carr  and  myself  not  to  be  able  to 
meet  you,  for  to  both  of  us  every  association  with  the  place  and  its  institutions 
becomes  more  precious  as  we  descend  into  the  vale  of  years. 

Be  assured  that  no  hearts  will  respond  more  warmly  than  ours  to  every 
touch  upon  the  chords  of  memory,  A  letter  lately  seat  me  by  Frederick  Lee  of 
Howell,  Michigan,  dated  June  27,  1835,  contains  many  of  my  childish  impressions  of 
my  first  year  in  the  Seminary.  I  entered  the  school  in  my  ninth  summer,  and  left  in 
my  seventeenth  year ;  a  period  which  covered  the  palmy  days  of  the  Seminary.  Dur- 
ing more  than  thirty  succeeding  years  I  have  been  familiar  with  the  leading  higher 
institutions  of  learning  ;  have  been  able  to  compare  the  methods  of  instruction  which 
Principal  Lucius  Clark  introduced  so  early  at  Castleton,  and  can  truly  say  that  I  have 
never  known  any  institution  of  equal  value  in  imparting  what  is  better  than  learning, 
viz.,  a  love  of  learning. 


46  AFTER-DINNEB  EXERCISES. 

The  system  pursued  was  one  of  demand  and  supply.  As  a  general  rule  all  were 
studying  as  their  tastes  and  circumstances  dictated — there  were  no  honors  to  be  con- 
tended for,  and  no  promotions  to  be  reached.  The  average  age  of  those  who  com- 
pleted the  course  was  eighteen.  Many  of  the  young  women  became  teachers  in  the 
South  and  West ;  many  of  the  young  men  distinguished  themselves  in  the  colleges, 
and  later  in  the  professions.  The  question  of  ^'  sex  in  education"  had  not  then  been 
raised.  Miss  Hodges,  who  was  both  pupil  and  teacher  at  Castleton,  had  noted  the 
after  history  of  her  pupils  and  associates  on  the  margin  of  one  of  the  annual  catalogues 
for  some  twenty  years,  from  which  I  gathered  that  the  proportion  of  young  men 
whose  nervous  systems  had  ^' given  ouf  in  the  battle  of  life  was  greater  than  that  of 
the  young  women. 

Life  in  the  Seminary  was  very  simple  and  earnest ;  and  it  seems  to  me  that  charac- 
ter was  recognized  as  higher  than  scholarship.  I  remember  Caroline  Langdon  (Mrs. 
Mitchell)  who  was  the  best  scholar  and  most  conscientious  pupil,  and  the  uncon- 
scious influence  she  exercised  upon  the  younger  girls.  Later,  Mary  Hooker  (Mrs. 
Mann)  occupied  the  same  position.  One  of  the  best  beloved  of  my  early  school- 
mates was  Emma  Hoit  of  New  York  city,  and  Lavinia  Palms  of  Peekskill  was  another 
dear  and  lovely  little  maiden,  who  died  early.  Frederick  Moulton  was  in  school 
about  that  time.  The  young  ladies  of  Castleton !  I  thought  them  peerless  then — I 
think  so  still.  Miss  Delia  Hoyt,  Miss  Charlotte  Moulton,  Miss  Lucy  Goodwin — I  can 
remember  the  patterns  of  their  pretty  chintz  dresses,  and  the  fashions  which  they  fol- 
lowed in  "  doing  their  hair."     It  was  a  French  twist  then,  as  now. 

What  wonderful  exercises  were  those  in  calisthenics,  in  the  attic  of  the  Seminary 
building !  Dancing,  which  our  mothers  and  foremothers  had  innocently  enjoyed,  had 
been  discountenanced  as  of  the  earth  earthy,  in  those  later  days,  and  the  neutral 
ground  was  calisthenics !  The  annual  commencement  ball,  as  a  recognized  college 
privilege,  lingered  at  Williams  College  longer  than  it  did  at  Middlebury,  so  that  I  was 
once  or  twice  permitted  to  realize  the  full  force  of  the  temptation  in  my  own  experi- 
ence, at  that  family  home  of  the  Smiths. 

My  great-grandfather.  Col.  Lee,  usually  took  me  to  school  in  his  carry-all  during 
ray  earliest  years  at  the  Seminary.  A  portion  of  all  his  week-days  was  passed  at 
Hyde  Westover's,  where  William  Dunlap  painted  his  portrait  in  '38.  His  valuable 
historical  papers  and  reminiscences  gave  me  a  life-long  taste  for  historical  studies,  and 
led  to  an  intimate  friendship  and  correspondence  with  Henry  Stephens  of  Baruet,  and 
his  illustrious  son  of  the  British  Museum. 

I  owe  my  love  of  woods  and  walking  to  Lucius  Clark,  who  encouraged  our  explo- 
rations into  the  wonders  of  the  natural  world.  Specimens  of  comparatively  rare 
plants  in  my  herbarium  were  labelled  by  him,  others  by  Prof.  Tully  of  the  Medical 
College.  I  commenced  the  study  of  botany  in  '37,  and  still  find  in  it  the  same 
exhaustless  pleasure.  I  grieve  for  the  lost  "lady  shoes"  in  Dake's  woods,  and  the 
Indian  pipes  on  the  beech  logs  in  woods  long  since  laid  waste,  south  of  the  Seminary. 

Now  and  then  I  meet  in  the  streets  of  Los  Angeles,  Frederick  Moulton  Shaw,  a 
hale  and  healthy  Seminarian  of  Castleton,  whose  home  in  the  Cahuenga  mountains 
overlooks  the  city  and  a  vast  expanse  of  orchards  and  vineyards,  and  a  wide  sweep  of 
the  Pacific  ocean.  We  invariably  vindicate  the  fame  of  the  Seminary,  and  mutually 
lament  our  inability  to  enjoy  the  reunion. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  the  commemorative  festival,  and  greetings  to 
all  the  participants,  I  remain.  Faithfully  yours, 

JEANNE  C.  CARR. 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  47 

1822  LiKDEjq"  Ayenue,  Baltimore,  Md., ) 
August,  3,  1887.  ) 

Upon  receipt  of  your  circular  advising  me  of  your  contemplated  centennial 
celebration,  bright  anticipations  of  personal  presence  and  enjoyment  led  me  to  plan 
and  arrange  to  attend  these  exercises  of  my  alma  mater  ;  as  the  days  went  by  these 
anticipations  crystalized  into  the  purpose  to  be  present ;  but 
* '  The  best  laid  schemes  o'  mice  and  men 
Gang  aft  agley, " 

and  those  of  women  also  ;  for  an  unexpected  and  little  later  trip  preyents  this  one 
of  Aug.  10  ;  my  enjoyment,  therefore,  of  your  celebration  must  be  found  in  the 
reading  and  study  of  the  exercises  and  addresses,  which  will  undoubtedly  be  put 
into  permanent  shape. 

I  send  you,  therefore,  this  letter  of  greeting  and  good  cheer  ;  may  your  gather- 
ing be  large  and  enthusiastic  ;  may  the  business  done  be  productive  of  eminent 
advantage  to  the  "  Grand  Old  School ;"  may  the  festivities  be  abundantly  pleas- 
urable; may  there-union  of  the  classes  with  each  other,  and  of  teachers  with  scholars, 
be  like  that  of  a  loving,  trustful,  happy  family  whose  highest  happiness  and  enjoy- 
ment is  in  hearing  and  knowing  of  the  true  success  of  each  and  every  member 
thereof.  With  sincerest  wishes  and  earnest  hopes  for  the  continued  prosperity  of 
the  Castleton  School,  with  love  to  the  faculty  of  the  class  of  1866,  and  to  every  mem- 
ber of  that  class,  with  sincere  regrets  that  I  cannot  be  present  on  this  Centennial 
occasion,  but  with  pledges  of  stronger  loyalty  than  ever  to  my  school,  I  sign  myself, 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

MRS.  W.  L.  KELLER, 

On  the  roll  of  the  class  of  1866  as  Miss  Jeknie  E.  SiMOifTO]sr,  Rockland,  Me. 

Sa]s-  Frakcisco,  Aug,  4,  1887. 

I  had  promised  myself  the  pleasure  of  being  with  you  on  the  10th  of  August 
to  celebrate  the  **  Centennial  of  Castleton  Seminary,"  but  in  reply  to  your  invitation 
regret  I  shall  not  be  able  to  meet  the  former  teachers  and  pupils  who  will  be  present, 
and  revive  the  memories  of  school  days,  which  in  this  far  off  land  often  come  to  me 
like  an  echo  from  the  past,  yet  bring  to  my  mind  scenes  and  friends  as  fresh  and 
distinct  as  the  history  of  yesterday. 

California  stands  far  ahead  of  many  of  the  older  States  in  her  system  of  com- 
mon schools  and  higher  institutions  of  learning,  and  many  of  the  teachers  who  have 
helped  accomplish  this  educational  work  were  former  pupils  of  Castleton  Seminary. 

"  The  pioneers  "  who  came  here  young  and  adventurous,  do  not  forget  the  dear 
land  they  left  behind  them — "  The  trembling  pennant  still  flies  back  "  to  the  home 
of  childhood  that  lies  far  away  on  the  Eastern  rim  of  the  Continent,  and  they  ever 
cherish  its  friendships  and  kinships — and  so,  as  one  of  these,  I  send  greetings  and 
wishes  of  good  cheer  to  all,  whether  absent  or  gathered  together  on  this  memorable 
anniversary,  and  trust  it  may  ever  be  kept  as  a  green  spot  in  the  memory  of  future 
generations. 

MARY  LAJSTGDON  SHELDON. 


48  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES, 

Coventry,  Vt.,  Aug.  6,  1887. 

To  our  (prima)  alma  mater,  this  centennial  hour,  we  send  c  ordial  greeting  and 
to  all  her  sons  and  daughters,  gathered  from  far  and  near — W.   N.  Bacon  and  Mrs. 
Harriet  E.  (Cutts)  Bacon,  former  pupils.     Mrs.  Bacon  was  pupil  in  1851 — I  was  (I 
trust) 'One  of  her  worthy  sons  from  1847,  graduating  in  1849.  Thence  to  Middlebury 
College,  graduating  in  1853.   Thence,  principal  of  North  Granville  Academy,  1854-5, 
and  Weedsport  Academy  (Cayuga  county,  N.  Y.,)  1855-56.     Thence  to  Auburn 
Theological  Seminary  (Auburn,  N.  Y.,)  1856,  graduating  1859.     Installed  pastor  at 
Pomfret,  Vermont,  1859-1863.     Thence,  installed  at  Shoreham,  Vermont,  as  pastor 
from  1864  to  near  1883,  nearly  twenty  years.    Thence  to  Coventry,  Vermont,  and 
installed  as  pastor  the  last  five  years,  where  I  am  now  laboring  in  one  of  the  pleas- 
ant parishes  of  Vermont.     Am  fifty-six  years  old  and  in  perfect  health,  and  keep 
up  fresh  study  on  my  line  of  work  and  in  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew. 

The  teachers  in  the  old  Seminary,  while  I  was  there  were  : '  E.  J.  Hallock,  prin- 
cipal ;  W.  W.  Winchester  and  wife  ;  Gridley  Perkins ;  and  the  Misses  Shattuck,  one 
the  preceptress,  the  other  having  charge  of  the  primary  department.  All  are 
remembered  with  great  pleasure  and  gratitude  for  their  noble  work. 

And  as  teacher  in  the  classics,  with  whom  I  had  so  much  to  do,  Eev.  W.  W. 
Winchester  excelled  ;  as  did  the  others  in  their  line  of  seminary  work.  We  are 
justly  proud  of  our  seminary  alma  mater.  It  would  give  us  great  joy  to  be  with  you 
this  day,  to  greet  and  welcome  so  many  noble  sons  and  daughters  who  have  gone  out 
from  these  hallowed  walls,  an  honor  to  this  institution ;  an  honor  to  their  respective 
callings ;  a  blessing  to  the  world.  Alas,  how  many  are  not  here,  gone  over  to  the 
other  shore.  God  help  us  fill  out  the  little  time  space  lef  fc,  well  and  in  honor  to 
Him — for,  ere  another  centennial,  we  shall  have  crossed  over,  and  may  it  be  with  us 
all,  to  the  ''land  of  the  blest." 

W.  N.  BACON, 

Pastor  of  Congregational  Church,  Coventry,  Vermont. 

EocHESTER,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  8,  1887. 

I  have  but  just  given  up  all  hope  of  being  present  at  the  centennial  celebration 
of  Castleton  Seminary.  Please  accept  my  thanks  for  your  kind  invitation  to 
attend. 

While. I  cannot  be  present  in  body,  ray  thoughts  will  be  with  you  on  that  day. 
And,  while  I  cannot  see  you  with  my  natural  eye,  in  mind  I  can  see  the  old  Semi- 
nary with  its  sloping  lawn  and  green  trees,  with  the  beautiful  village  which  it  over- 
looks, and  the  verdant  hills  rising  as  a  wall  of  defense  around  about  it.  But  dearer 
to  me  than  these  are  the  faces  of  those  I  there  used  to  meet,  some  of  whom  have 
crossed  to  the  other  shore,  and  some  of  us  a  little  longer  wait. 

Yours  truly, 

C.  F.  GOODWIN. 

Marblehead  Neck,  Aug.  8,  1887. 

Your  circular  was  duly  received,  and  I  congratulate  you  on  the  happy  thought, 
of  celebrating  the  centennial  of  so  worthy  a  school  as  that  in  your  lovely  village  of 
Castleton. 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES.  49 

It  was  while  Dr,  Steele  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church,  Mr.  Hallock 
principal,  and  ray  mother,  Mrs.  Barran,  lady  principal,  or  governess,  that  I,  with 
my  dear  friend,  Mrs.  John  Howe,  (now  of  Castleton),  spent  so  many  happy  months, 
or  years,  at  the  seminary. 

My  mother,  Mrs.  Barron,  after  a  very  useful  Christian  life,  passed  on  to  the 
Better  Land  about  eleven  years  ago.     Although  I  shall  not  be  able  to  join  you  at 
the  jubilee,  I  send  you  my  greeting  and  the  best  of  good  cheer.     Believe  me. 
Yours  most  sincerely, 

MRS.  MARIE  THERESE  VINCENT, 

Evans  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

St.  James'  Rectory,        ) 
Bedford,  Pa.,  Aug.  8,  1887.  j 

It  has  been  my  hope  and,  until  lately,  almost  my  expectation,  that  I  would  be 
present  during  this  week  at  Castleton  Seminary,  to  unite  with  those  who  remain  of 
its  former  teachers  and  scholars,  in  commemorating  the  centennial  anniversary  of 
its  foundation,  in  its  earlier  form  of  a  Rutland  County  Grrammar  School.  That  I 
cannot  do  so  is  a  real  disappointment  to  me.  I  am  confident  that  few,  if  any,  of 
those  who  shall  be  privileged  to  meet  there  will  more  keenly  joy  in  the  pleasure 
than  would  I  have  done. 

Forty  years  ago  this  past  spring  I  entered  on  my  studies  there.  The  Rev.  E. 
J.  Hallock  was  then  the  principal.  Mr.  J.  H.  Lane  was  then  the  classical  teacher 
and  Dr.  S.  Gr.  Perkins  the  mathematical  teacher.  Miss  Sophia  C.  Hayden  was  the 
governess.  Forty  years  ago  this  coming  fall  and  winter,  while  I  continued  into  my 
second  school  year,  Mr.  Warren  W.  Winchester  succeeded  Mr,  Lane,  and  Mr.  J.  H. 
Wainwright,  Dr.  Perkins. 

Mr.  Hallock  has  now  been  dead  many  years.  Four  years  after  my  entering  the 
Seminary,  Mr.  Lane  was  a  chief  examiner  in  the  U.  S.  Patent  Office  at  Washington 
and  I  his  assistant  ;  and,  four  years  later  still,  his  colleague  there.  In  1861,  the 
first  year  of  the  war,  I  saw  Dr.  Perkins  in  Baltimore,  an  officer  in  a  regiment  of 
Vermont  cavalry,  in  whose  first  engagement  he  was  killed.  Dr.  Wainwright  and  I 
are  now  fellow  laborers  in  the  same  ministry.  Within  the  last  two  years  it  has  been 
my  great  pleasure  to  visit  and  meet  once  more  both  Miss  Hayden  —  now  Mrs.  Fogg 
—  and  Mr.  Winchester,  and  to  tell  them  how  gratefully  I  ever  recall  their  former 
kindnesses  to  me.  Of  my  room-mates  in  those  days,  it  was,  in  1873,  my  sad  privilege 
to  lay  one  —  Chas.  E.  K.  Sherman  —  to  rest  on  the  Island  of  Capri,  where  he  died. 
With  the  other  two  I  have  been  able  to  preserve,  or  lately  to  renew  my  old  rela- 
tions of  fellowship  and  friendship.  But  of  the  others  how  little  have  I  known  ; 
how  little  do  I  know  !  I  had  hoped,  among  those  gathered  in  Castleton  this  week,  I 
might  meet  some,  at  least,  who  shared  my  school  memories  of  1847  and  '48  ; 
some,  possibly,  who  have  not  forgotten  me,  and  with  whom  I  might  have  enjoyed, 
perhaps,  a  hearty  laugh  over  our  school  frolics,  perhaps  a  sad  tribute  over  an  anec- 
dote which  recalls  some  who  have  gone  before.  Forty  years  can  have  left  but  few 
of  all  the  scholars  of  that  day  still  living  ; —  fewer  yet  able  to  be  in  Castleton  this 
week. 

To  such  of  my  old  teachers  of  those  days,  if  any  there  be  present,  I  send  my 
most  respectful  and  grateful  salutations.     To  such  of  my  former  school-mates  as  still 

7 


50  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES, 

remember  me,  my  heartiest  and  loving  greetings.  No  obstacle  within  the  controlling 
power  of  my  will  would  deprive  me  of  offering  these  in  person. 

Faithfully,  and  with  a  heart  full  of  old  memories, 

AYM.  CHAUNOY  LANGDON. 

Boscawe:^,  N.  H.,  Aug.,  1887. 

The  invitation  to  Castleton's  school  centennial  (grammar,  seminary  or  normal) 
has  been  received.  This  may  seem  a  tardy  response,  but  I  will  spend  no  time  in 
excuses.  Circumstances  will  not  permit  me  to  be  with  you  for  the  centennial  fes- 
tivities, but  I  wish  to  extend  greetings  and  congratulations  to  all  wdio  will  gather 
in  the  familiar  places  on  Aug.  10.  It  is  an  honor  and  blessing  to  a  town  to  have 
been  the  seat  of  such  a  school  for  so  many  years.  I  am  glad  that  I  am  one  among 
the  pupils  of  Castleton  Seminary.  The  faces  of  teachers  and  pupils  come  distinctly 
before  me  as  I  write,  and  the  impulse  given  there  will  never  be  forgotten  by  me. 
The  good  such  a  school  does  is  untold,  for  it  reaches  on  down  the  ages.  May  we 
not  justly  be  proud  of  so  aged  and  honored  an  institution?  I  hope  the  school 
will  flourish  for  another  century.  I  am  sure  this  anniversary  day,  with  its  glad 
reunions,  pleasant,  perhaps  tenderly  sad  reminiscences,  and  words  of  good  cheer 
will  be  an  inspiration  to  all  alumni.  Sincerely  hoping  all  your  exercises  will  pass 
successfully,  I  am. 

Cordially  and  faithfully  yours, 

MRS.  MARTHA  P.  WEBSTER,  nee  Pillsbury. 

Sterling,  Kansas,  April  23,  1887. 

The  notice  of  centennial  was  forwarded  to  me.  I  shall  endeavor  to  be  present. 
I  am  confident  that  the  meeting  will  be  fraught  with  great  pleasure  to  all  the 
alumni  of  Castleton  Seminary.  My  address  is  Oak  Park,  Cook  Co.,  111.  With 
kindest  regards  to  your  j)arents  and  the  friends  of  my  youth  whom  you  may  meet, 

I  am,  yours  sincerely, 

E.  L.  HALLOCK. 

White  Cloud,  Mich.,  June  27,  1887. 

It  is  forty-five  years  since  I  entered  "  Cas.  Sem."  for  the  first  time.  I  went  there 
at  the  age  of  21,  after  being  at  "  T.  C.  A."  one  and  a  half  years.  I  had  then  taught 
two  three-months  terms  of  winter  school,  one  near  Bird's  Eye,  the  other  on  East 
Hampton  Flats.  I  was  at  Castleton  three  years,  except  that  I  w^ent  out  and  taught 
school  in  Whipple  Hollow,  and  South  Clarendon,  each  three  months.  I  was  for  some 
lime  a  teacher  of  writing  in  that  school.  When  I  entered  into  that  school  in  August, 
1842,  our  teachers  were  E.  J.  Ilallock,  Mrs.  Miner  (a  clergyman's  widow  and  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Billings  of  Rutland,  half  sister  of  Mrs.  John  Cain,  who  started  the  manu- 
facture of  green  slate  pencils),  and  Rev.  Samuel  Hulburt.  At  the  end  of  three  months 
Mr.  H.  left  to  pursue  his  theological  studies,  and  John  C.  Churchill,  from  Middlebury 
College,  took  his  place  and  remained  there  as  long  as  I  did.  Mr.  Churchill  taught, 
kept  up  his  college  studies,  went  to  Middlebury  at  Commencement  and  graduated,  the 
next  summer.  We  had  other  teachers  for  a  time,  or  at  times  —  a  Mr.  Munger,  Dr. 
Cooke  of  Rutland  and  one  other  whose  name  is  forgotten,  but   form  and  face  remem- 


AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  51 

bered.  Miss  Anna  Lawrence  was  teacher  of  painting  and  drawing.  At  the  end  of 
the  year  she  married  Gen.  Hopkins  of  Rutland,  and,  I  suppose,  survives  him.  The 
faces  ot  the  Boardmans,  Farnams,  Gorham,  Winchesters,  Olapps,  Fishers,  Perkins, 
Blakelys,  Carpenter,  Spencers,  Dake,  Hawkins,  Northrups,  Ainsworths,  Hawley, 
Smiths,  Lowes,  Phelps,  Lodges,  Larkins,  Robinsons,  Edgertons,  Vails,  Wainwright^ 
Smiths,  Langdons,  Townsends,  Laphams,  Sherman,  Kelly,  McAuleys,  Rice,  Newells, 
Warner,  and  many  others,  are  before  me,  but  I  have  not  time  or  space  to  say  all  I 
would  about  them.  No  school  ever  had  a  better  corps  of  teachers  than  Mr.  Hallock 
gathered  around  him  ;  none  could  have  had'  less  difficulty  with  the  students  or  been 
more  universally  esteemed  by  them  than  they.  A  capable  teacher,  a  good  and  true 
woman,  was  Mrs.  Miner.  But  I  must  close,  lest  I  weary  you  '^with  too  much  speak- 
ing." 

Yours  most  truly, 

O.  L.  RAY. 

Geinnell,  Iowa,  July  18,  1887. 

On  your  campus  I  mark  the  trees  which  I  brought  from  the  mountains  under 
Mr.  Hallock.  Here  I  write  in  the  shade  of  elms  which  I  have  cherished  for  30  years 
in  association  with  Iowa  College,  now  the  oldest  in  Iowa.  For  Vermont  moun- 
tains in  their  beauty,  and  her  manly  statesmen  at  home  and  abroad,  I  have  ever  held 
an  admiration,  and  time  will  never  sunder  the  ties  of  home  which  your  grand  anniver- 
sary may  strengthen. 

Let  me,  with  thanks,  wish  you  a  happy  occasion. 

Truly  yours, 

J.  B.  GRINNELL. 

Milwaukee,  30th  July. 
Gladly  would  I  join  you  at  the  old  haunt  of  my  young  days,  but  it  will  be  impos- 
sible.    I  shall  be  with  you  in  spirit  on  that  day  at  the  Seminary,  and  trust  that  all 
will  pass  off  happily,  the  old  school  take  courage  and  go  on  and  on,  training  the  young 
for  life's  journey. 

Yours  very  truly, 

MARTHA  (REED)  MITCHELL. 

Ames'  Free  Lihrahy,   i 
North  Easton,  Mass.  S 

I  should  be  glad  to  meet  you  and  all  who  will  gather  on  the  forthcoming  [occa- 
sion, but  I  cannot  promise,  as  circumstances  may  stand  in  the  way.  But  if  I  live 
(and^why  not  if  I  don't?)  I  hope  to  be  with  you  in  spirit.     Meanwhile  I  remain. 

Very  truly  yours, 

C.  R.  BALLARD. 


52  AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES. 

Providence,  R.  I.,  August  8,  1887. 

Since  the  receipt  of  your  circular  postmarked  July  21st,  I  have  entertained  with 
much  pleasure  the  anticipation  that  I  might  be  able  to  accept  your  invitation  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  celebration  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  Castleton 
Seminary.  But  as  the  10th  of  August  draws  near  I  am  obliged  to  face  the  fact  that  I 
cannot  be  with  you  and  must  content  myself  with  a  simple  expression  of  a  deep  interest 
in  the  occasion  and  a  sincere  hope  that  it  may  afford  the  highest  satisfaction  to  all 
who  may  be  able  to  be  present,  and  may  tend  to  enhance  and  perpetuate  the  blessings 
of  the  Seminary  to  future  generations. 

Yours  very  cordially, 

GEO.  H.  CORLISS. 

Letters  were  also  received  from  the  'following  named  persons,  all  of  whom 
expressed  a  strong  attachment  for  their  alma  mater  at  Oastleton,  and  a  longing 
desire  to  be  present  at  the  celebration  : 

Mrs.  Carrie  Farwell  Parker,  Gardner,  111.  Dr.  R.  G.  Bogue,  Chicago,  111. 
Ohas.  L.  Merrill,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  E.  B.  Parmele,  Rutland,  Vt. 

John  Smart,  Jr.,  Grand  Lake,  Col.  L.  W.  Redington,  Rutland,  Vt. 

Miss  F.  M.  Barrows,  Woodstock,  Vt.        Mrs.  Anna  M.  Bristol,  Vergennes,  Vt. 
Mrs.  Hattie  Bennett,  Saratoga,  N.  Y.        M.  J.  Davis,  Darien,  Conn. 
Mrs.  M.  L.  Merrill,  Maiden,  Mass.  Chas.  C.  Bromley,  Boulder,  Col. 

Mrs.  Ann  W.  Hotchkiss,  Hampton,  N".  Y.  Mrs.  C.  M.  Baker,  Cambridge,  N.  Y. 
Miss  Helen  Tower,  Sacramento,  Cal.  Edwin  Vallette,  Middlebury,  Vt. 

0.  A.  Kenyon,  McGregor,  Iowa.  Mrs.  Maria  Blanchard  Bradley,  Hailey,  lo. 

E.  F.  Arnold,  Londonderry,  Vt.  Alice  Clune  Wheeler,  Crown  Pt.,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Ada  B.  Callender,  Middlebury,  Vt.    Mrs.  M.  C.  Davis,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  K.  Cain,  Warsaw,  Mo.       Harriet  Brownell  Mulford,  Muscatine,  la. 
James  H.  Dolan,  Troy,  N.  Y.  Lizzie  Brown  Hutchinson,  Winterset,  la. 

Miss  Almira  H.  Perry,  Rockford,  111.         W.  S.  Eddy,  Clarendon,  Vt. 
Mrs.  Jennie  W.  Greene,  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.  Miss  Fannie  Hooker,  Salem,  Wis. 
E.  Noble,  DeKalb,  111.  Mrs.  Willard  Edson,  Pittsford,  Vt. 

Hon.  F.  E.  Woodbridge,  Vergennes,  Vt.  Miss  Georgia  A.  Draper,  Mont  Clair,N.J, 
H.  A.  Ford,  Detroit,  Mich.  Dr.  H.  A.  Boland,  Lawrenceville,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  J.  H.  (Cooley)Hebert,  Goshen,  Ind.    Mrs.  W.  H.  Crane,  Homer,  N.  Y^ 
Mrs.  S.  N.  Enright,  Leavenworth,  Kan.    Mrs.  Ella  Gay  Collins,  Rockland,  Me. 
Miss  Sarah  P.  White,  Chicago,  111.  Mrs.  Julia  Bassett  Lyons,  Tolono,  111. 

Mrs.  Simeon  Rising,  West  Rupert,  Vt.     J.  F,  Clark,  Whitehall,  N.  Y. 
Mrs.  Jennie  U.  Andrews,  Adamsville,  Pa.  Mrs.  J.  M.  Goodnough,  Pittsford,  Vt. 
Miss  Amanda  Underwood,  Adamsville,  Pa.  Miss  Mary  L.  Jillson,  Whitehall,  N.  Y. 
Mrs.  Ada  II.  Houghton,  Readsboro,  Vt.    Mrs.  A.  H.  Perry,  Rockford,  111. 
Chas.  C.  Larkin,  Chester,  Pa.  R.  Hitchcock,  West  Haven,  Vt. 

Mrs.  Caroline  W.  Jamieson,  Chicago,  111.  Mrs.  Sophia  Moore  Bailey,  Rutland,  Vt. 
Miss  Jennie  E.  Williams,  Groton,  N.  Y.  Daniel  D.  Gorliam,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Wm.  C.  Langdon,  Poultney,  Vt.  Frank  B.  Ellenwood,  Rome,  N.  Y. 

Hiram  Ladd  Spencer,  St.  John,  N.  B.      Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  Knowlton,  Greensboro, 
Dr.  Frank  C.  Harrison,  Lewisburgh,  Pa.  Miss  Sarah  N.  Hooker,  Boston,  Mass. 
Ellen  (Billings)  Lyon,  SpringLield,  Mass.  Mrs.  S.  T.  Bradley,  Thetchum,  Idaho. 
A.  L.  Marsh,  Underhill,  Vt.  Mary  E.  Mead,  Davenport,  la. 

Ximena  Johnson,  Lincoln,  Neb.  Quincy  Blakeley,  Campton,  N.  II. 


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AFTER-DINNER  EXERCISES,  53 

Thus  closed  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  festive  occasions  it  was  ever  our  privilege 
to  attend.  The  speaking  was  of  a  high  order,  pleasant,  chaste,  instructive,  and 
inspiring.  But  even  a  centennial  anniversary  must  come  to  an  end,  and  at  sunset 
the  reluctant  people  went  their  way. 


The  Evening, 


From  eight  to  eleven  o'clock  Principal  Leavenworth  and  his  sister,  Miss  Louisa 
M.  Leavenworth,  held  a  reception  in  the  school  parlors.  The  tables  had  been 
removed  from  the  park  and  the  buildings  and  grounds  were  then  open  to  the  public. 
Hundreds  of  Chinese  lanterns  of  every  color  hung  from  the  branches  of  the  trees 
and  from  the  balconies,  and  the  buildings  were  illuminated  with  lights  in  every 
room  and  window.  Over  the  main  entrance,  between  the  great  pillars  of  the  por- 
tico, were  hung  mottoes  in  letters  of  light  and  the  rooms  within  were  beautifully 
decorated  with  evergreen  and  flowers,  while  unlimited  fireworks  made  beautiful  the 
world  without.  The  orchestra  was  stationed  on  the  front  porch  and  to  the  beauty 
of  the  scene  added  the  harmony  of  sweet  sounds.  For  three  hours  a  constant 
stream  of  people  poured  through  the  rooms,  exchanging  greetings  with  the  friends 
of  other  days  and  recalling  the  memories  of  the  flying  years.  And  while  each  one 
for  himself  takes  a  farewell  look  at  the  old,  familiar  places,  missing,  each  one,  many 
dear,  familiar  faces,  the  time  for  one  more  separation  has  come.  The  lights  are 
out.     A  new  day  dawns.     Another  century  has  begun. 


CENTENNIAL  REGISTER, 


NAMES. 

EESIDEI!^CE. 

CLASS. 

E.  T.  Woodward, 

Commander  U.  S.  Navy. 

1857. 

James  San  ford,  M.  D. 

Castleton,   Vt. 

1834,  '36. 

Miss  Mamie  Mace, 

Keeseville,  N.  Y. 

1883,  '84. 

D.  a.  Burt, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1856,  '6L 

Mamie  0.  Burt, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1882,  '87. 

Olive  0.  Cheney, 

Charles  City,  Iowa. 

1855, '56. 

Frances  Moore, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1860. 

Josiah  N.  Nortlirop, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1816,  '20. 

Allen  P.  Northrop, 

Flushing,  N.  Y. 

1837,  '47. 

Russell  M.  Wright, 

Easthampton,  Mass. 

1862,  '63. 

Olive  (Branch)  Maynard, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1815,  '22. 

Delia  A.  Whitlock, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1851, '54. 

Zeruah  H.  Caswell, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1823,  '25. 

Mrs.  Jane  E.( Merrill)  Foote,  Castleton,  Vt. 

1827,  '38. 

Mrs.  Alma  (Rising)  Allen, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Wm.  L.  Farnam, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1849. 

Julia  E  (Langdon)  Arnold 

,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

1854. 

M.  Jane  (K.)  Farnam, 

Poultney;  Vt. 

1854. 

Lillie  C.  Langdon, 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

1881. 

Helen  C.  Langdon, 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

1881. 

Alice  (Sherman)  Cole, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1864. 

Lora  M.  Clark, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1871. 

Horace  B.  Ellis, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1865. 

Eugenia(Perkins)Ainsworth, Castleton,  Vt. 

1867. 

Martha  (]Srorthrop)Bromley,Castleton,Vt. 

1854,  '59. 

Persis  IST.  Andrews, 

Paris,  Me. 

1866. 

Emma  (Soule)  Ambrose, 

Somerville,  Mass. 

1866. 

Lena  (Rawson)  Smith, 

Waldoboro,  Me. 

1865,  '6Q. 

Belle  (Parker)  Jackson, 

Plainfield,  N.  J. 

1852. 

Nellie  (Miller)  Pearsall, 

Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

Under  Hyde  and  Knowlton. 

Jennie  (Parker)  Wilkins, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Harriet  K.  Davy, 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Under  Hallock. 

Chas.  C.  Larkin, 

Chester,  Delaware  Co.,  Pa. 

,  1544,  '45 

Sarah  E.  Hyde, 

Hyde  villa,  Vt. 

Under  Williams  and  Hyde, 

Daniel  E.  Mason, 

Albany,  N.  Y. 

Under  Hyde. 

Hanora  Harrison, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Hervey  Spencer, 

Burlington,  Vt. 

Under  Clark  and  Hallock. 

Caroline  K.  (P.)  Spencer, 

Burlington,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Cora  F.  Bratton, 

Stamford,  Vt. 

Under  Dana. 

Martha  C.  Underwood, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1851. 

Mary  (Cheney)  Hand, 

Charles  City,  Iowa. 

1856. 

CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


55 


KAMES. 

Elroy  A.  Clayton, 
Chas.  E.  Montague, 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Creech, 
Miss  S.  N.  Harrison, 


EESIDEl^CE. 

Weston,  Vt. 
Woodstock,  Vt. 
Valdosta,  Ga. 
Castleton,  Vt. 


Octavia  J.(Olapp)  Griswold,  Batavia,  N.Y. 


Mrs.  M.  M.  Curtis, 
James  Tufts, 
MarjE.  (Warren)  Tufts, 
Fanny  M.  Warren, 
Belle  H.  Howard, 
Emma  L.  Higley, 
Alfred  E.  Higley, 
Mrs.  A.  E.  Higley, 
Miss  M.  L.  Wilson, 
Miss  Sarah  Hoit, 


Galesburg,  Knox  Co.,  111. 
Monson,  Mass. 
Monson,  Mass. 
Great  Barrington,  Mass. 
Hampton,  N.  Y. 
Middlebury,  Vt. 
Hortonville,  Vt. 
Hortonyille,  Vt. 
Whitehall,  N.  Y. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 


Stephen  T.  Byington, 
Eebecca(Sherman)Jackman,  Castleton,  Vt. 
Juliet  E.  Perkins,  M.  D.,  Castleton,  Vt. 
Charles  E.  Patterson,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

John  M.  Davison,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

Charles  A.  Davison,  New  York. 

Mattie(Jackman) Armstrong, Castleton,  Vt. 
Mary  Gilchrist,  Castleton,  Vt. 

Agnes  G.  Stowell,  Cornwall,  Vt. 

Anna  Rebecca  Armstrong,    Castleton,  Vt. 
Fannie  C.  Reed, 


Nina  C.  Dutton, 

Bert  J.  Armstrong, 

Mary  W.  Hoyt, 

Lucy  J.  (Phelps)  Wood, 

Nellie  (Baxter)  Langdon, 

Lizzie  (Baxter)  Ferris, 

Sarah  (Harris)  Rice, 

Mary  Augusta  Rice, 

W.  C.  Byington, 

Carl  S.  Cole, 

George  L.  Cole, 

Florence  M.  Bixby, 

M.  E.  (Dake)  Goodale, 

Reba  Cole, 

A.  T.  Woodward, 

L.  T.  Woodward, 

C.  M.  (Stone)  Sherman, 

Lotta  Sherman, 

Arthur  L.  Sherman, 

A.  L.  Marsh, 

A.  M.  Hoyt, 


Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Castleton,  .Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vu. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Rutland,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Brandon,  Vt. 
Brandon,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Underbill,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 


CLASS. 

1885. 
1884. 
1860. 
1852. 

1842,  '43. 

1843,  '45. 
1846, '47. 

1847,  '51. 
1851. 
1883,  '87. 

1848,  '52. 
1860,  '64. 
Under  Williams. 

1844,  '46. 
Mack  to  Hallock. 
1886. 

1835,  37. 

1845, '47. 

1854, '55. 

Under  Clark. 

Lender  Walker. 

1864,  '67. 

1850. 

1885,  '87. 

1883,  '87. 

1883,  '87. 

1883,  '87. 

1881,  '87. 

1878,  '80. 

1870. 

Under  Miss  Haskell. 

Under  Miss  Haskell. 

Under  Howe  andjFoote. 

Under  Miss  Haskell. 

1887. 

1881,  '85. 

1881,  '^^. 

1881,  '84. 

1860,  '64. 

1881,  '87. 
Under  Hallock. 
Under  Hallock. 
1870,  '73. 

1882,  '87. 

1883,  '87. 
1856,  '58. 
1834,  '38. 


56 


CENTENNIAL   REGISTER. 


KAMES. 

Fannie  (Hall)  Hoyt, 
Ida  0.  Hoyt, 
Alma  G.  Wright, 
Fred  E.  Kussell, 
John  Curtis, 
Alice  E.  Dutton, 
P.  K.  Leavenworth, 
W.  S.  Leavenworth, 
Abel  E.  Leavenworth, 
Louisa  M.  Leavenworth, 
Anna  M.  (Elithorp)  Bristol, 
Florence  L.  Eussell, 
Abbie  E.  Leonard, 
Melvina  (Tomlinson)Parker 
Viola  E.  Perkins, 
Julia  (Gruy)  Wilson, 
Marie  0.  Northrop, 
Emerette  (R.)  Ellenwood, 
Sarah  (Boyd)  Camp, 

E.  L.  Eipley, 
S.  E.  Strong, 
0.  J.  Hawkins, 

Mary  (Wright)  Burdick, 
Maria  I.  Oonant, 
Mrs.  S.  Denison, 
Anna  F.  Bell, 
Mrs.  G.  A.  Kimball, 
Mr.  E.  D.  Collins, 
Fred  D.  Moulton, 
Harry  W.  Eussell, 
Edward  T.  Callahan, 
Harry  F.  Eeed, 
Zack  C.  Hinds, 
J.  B.  Jackson, 
Wm.  H.  Stevenson, 
Ed.  Hoyt, 

Reno  n.  Hutchinson, 
Alice  M.  Lincoln, 
Mary  C.  Northrop, 
Jane  D.  Adams, 
Lyman  Eogcrs, 

F.  F.  Douglas, 
Laura  T.  Farr, 
Jane  S.  Jones, 
J.  P.  Sheldon, 
Gertrude  (S.)  Hutchinson, 
Helen  (Sherman)  Jones, 


RESIDENCE. 

Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Easthampton,  Mass. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
North  Dorset,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Hamilton  College, 
State  Normal. 
State  Normal. 
Vergennes,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Woodstock,  Vt. 
,Castleton,  Vt. 
Springfield,  Vt. 
Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
West  Winsted,  Conn, 
Burlington,  Vt. 
North  Pawlet,  Vt. 
West  Pawlet,  Vt. 
West  Pawlet,  Vt. 
Eagle  Bridge,  N.  Y. 
Granville,  N.  Y. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Orwell,  Vt. 
Shoreham,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Eandolph,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Pittsford,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Columbus,  N.  C. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Bennington,  Vt. 
Whiting,  Vt. 
Eutland,  Vt. 
Castleton,  Vt. 
Hull,  Iowa. 
Columbus,  N.  C. 
Fair  Haven,  Vt. 


CLASS. 

1857. 
1878,  '81. 
1872. 

1881,  '87. 
1841,  '43. 
Under  Knowlton. 

1882,  '83. 
1882,  '83. 
1881,  '87. 
1881,  '87. 
1872. 
1881. 

1881,  '87. 
Under  Clark. 
1887. 

1862,  '63. 

Under  Miss  Haskell. 

Under  Hallock. 

1864. 

1855. 

1854,  '59. 

1853,  'm, 

1853,  '56. 

1852,  '56. 

1873,  '75. 
1885,  '87. 
1876,  '78. 

1882,  '%^, 

1883,  '86. 
1883,  '87. 
1883,  '87. 
Under  Dana. 

1883,  '87. 

1874,  '75. 
1887. 

1884,  '87. 

1885,  '87. 
1885,  '87. 
1870,  '74. 
1873,  '83. 

1853,  '55. 
1883,  '84. 
1873,  '74. 
1846. 
1833,  '39. 
1868. 
1881. 


CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


57 


NAMES. 

RESIDENCE. 

CLASS. 

Geo.  D.  Spencer, 

Castleton,  Yt. 

1837, 

'46. 

Edward  Norton, 

Fair  Haven,Yt. 

1886, 

'87. 

W.  H.  Northrop, 

Castleton,  Vt 

1837, 

'54. 

Walton  Blakely, 

Pawlet,  Vt. 

1840, 

'44. 

Angelette  (Horr)  Blakely, 

Pawlet,  Vt. 

1846. 

A.  L.  Tuttle, 

Alford,  Mass. 

1879, 

'80. 

Frank  Keenan, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1887. 

Fannie  Hall, 

Sudbury,  Vt. 

1886, 

'87. 

Minnie  Eice, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1881, 

'86. 

W.  C.  Rice, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1862. 

Jessie  Eice, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873, 

'74. 

Maggie  J.  Eyan, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1873, 

'74. 

E.  D.  Hall, 

Orwell,  Vt. 

1847. 

H.  H.  Young, 

Orwell,  Vt. 

1847. 

J.  W.  Wood, 

Frey's  Bush,  K.  Y. 

1887. 

Myron  D.  Mather, 

Austin,  Texas. 

1856. 

Osro  E.  Clayton, 

Weston,  Vt. 

1887. 

Leon  B.  Smith, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

J.  Frank  Eowe, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1883, 

'87. 

Frank  J.  Preston, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885. 

Mary  E.  Giddings, 

Hubbardton  ,Vt. 

1885. 

Cornelia  (Ellery)  Clarke, 

New  York  City. 

1864. 

Clara  B.  Hallock, 

Chicago. 

1857. 

Delia  Hoyt, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1832. 

Laura  E  Brown  son, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1827. 

Eev.and  Mrs.  J.  K.  Williams,Underhill,  Vfc. 

1861, 

'62. 

Alma  J.  (Gates)  Ober, 

Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y. 

1870. 

Alice  B.  Deuell, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885. 

Phebe  E.  Wood, 

Fair  Haven. 

1841. 

Sarah  M.   Griswold, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1858. 

J.  Ada  Proctor, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1884, 

'85. 

Louise  A.  Doane, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1851, 

'52. 

Susie  (Sheldon)  Gibson, 

Greenwich,  N.  Y. 

1850, 

'53. 

Phebe  (Sheldon)  Bailey, 

Greenwich,  N.  Y. 

1849, 

'50, 

Marion  E.  Lawrence, 

East  Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Delia  L.  Parsons, 

Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Mrs.  F.  C.  Gault, 

East  Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1847, 

'51. 

Charlotte  (M.  T.)  Gibson, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1832. 

Mary  M.  Tuttle, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1863. 

Ann  Pond  Green, 

East  Poultney,  Vfc. 

18:33. 

Lucy  (Goodwin)  Dewey, 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

1833, 

'36. 

Helen  B.  Lawrence, 

East  Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1885. 

Eliza  J.  Lamb, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1872. 

Emily  Williams, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1873. 

Hattie  H.  Stevens,      " 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

1886. 

Ella  (Brown)  Stevens, 
8 

East  Poultney,  Vfc. 

1860. 

58 


CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


N'AMES. 

Mary  E.  (Burdick)  Hay, 

Minnie  E.  Streeter, 

Mary  D.  Petty, 

John  I.  Fennell, 

Lizzie  Smith, 

L.  B.  Smith, 

Mrs.  L.  B.  Smith, 

Alice  E.  Smith, 

Addie  E.  Wescott, 

Fred  L.  Lincoln, 

George  Sanford, 

A.  J.  Ketcham, 

Mrs.  A.  B.  Buell, 

Arabella  (Dake)  Spencer, 

Emeline  Gilbert, 

Julia  A.  (Gilbert)  Graves, 

Mary  E.  Granger, 

Mrs.  J.  Harris, 

S.  M.  Dikeman, 

Mrs.  J.  (N.)  Hurlburt, 

Lois  W.  Spaulding, 

Beng.  Parkin, 

Lillian  (Fulton)  Hathorne, 

S.  E.  Barnard, 

Emma  (Lee)  Guernsey, 

Mary  (Marsh)  Proctor, 

William  H.  Proctor, 

Sarah  Proctor  Gibbs, 

Mrs.  R.  T.  Ellis, 

Mrs.  Laura  E.  (Joy)  Fisher, 

Mrs.  M.  E.  Johnson, 

Mrs.  Albert  F.  Williams, 

Mrs.  Mary  (Ellis)  Northrop, 

Mrs.  E.  V.  (Ellis)  Flagg, 

Mr.  Will  Radican, 

Delia  (Hawkins)  Stewart, 

W.  E.  Stewart, 

Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Wines, 

Leonard  P.  Davis, 

Mrs.  M.  E.  (Brooks)  Noble, 

Lizzie  Brearton, 

Laura  E.  Shaw, 

Marion  New  Ellis, 

Mary  (Parker)  Hallowell, 

Martha  D.  Byington, 

Annie  E.  Adams, 

L.  W.  Palmer, 


RESIDENCE. 

CLASS. 

Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y. 

1848. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

North  Dorset,  Vt. 

1882. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885,  '86. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

(Castleton,  Vt. 

1872. 

Burlington,  Vt. 



Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Castleton,  Vt, 

1883,  '87. 

Sudbury,  Vt. 

1832,  '33,  '34. 

Orwell,  Vt. 

Washington,  D.  0. 

1843,  '48. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1856,  '61. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1858,  '61. 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

1868. 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1854. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1871,  '76. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1852,  '55. 

Cornwall,  Vt. 

1820. 

Oneida,  N.  Y. 

1875,  '76. 

Waldoboro,  Me. 

1865,  '67. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1857,  'm. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1857,  '67. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1857,  '59. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1856,  '58. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock, 

Orange,  N.  J. 

1858,  '59. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1855,  '69. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885,  '87. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1847,  '48. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1827,  '28. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885,  'm. 

Wallingford,  Vt. 

1861,  '65. 

Wallingford,  Vt. 

1861. 

Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

1839. 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1882,  '%^, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1848,  '49. 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1885,  '87. 

North  Bennington,  Vt. 

1848,  '60. 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

1860,  '61. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Un.  Knowltonand  Haskell. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1883,  '87. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

188i. 

Providence,  R.  L 

1858,  'GL 

CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


59 


ITAMES. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Ellis, 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Goodwin, 
Mrs.  Albert  Tuttle, 
Miss  Edith  Tuttle, 
Miss  Lucy  F.  Williams, 
John  0.  Davis, 
W.  H.  Parkhurst, 
Ohas.  A.  Lincoln, 
Mrs.  M.  B.  Dewey, 
Gertrude  A.  Dewey, 
Kuth  (Skinner)  Lee, 
Libbie  Alice  Wrye, 
Mrs.  0.  (Heath)  Ross, 
Georgie  A.  Draper, 
Francis  0.  Lake, 
Addie  L.  Pomeroy, 
Rufus  C.  Flagg, 
Lydia  (Smith)  Smith, 
Franklin  W  Olmstead, 
A.  L.  Ransom, 
Lena  E.  Howard, 
Samuel  Evarts, 
0.  B.  Goodrich, 
Lizzie  A.  Miller, 
Mis.  F.  Q.  Day, 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Spencer, 
Hattie  E.  Allen, 
Mrs.  W.  Pitkin, 
Mrs.  R.  K.  Hamilton, 
W.  W.  Pitkin, 
Heman  Stannard,  Jr., 
Ellen  (Bromley)  Harman, 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Cleveland, 
Jennie  E.  Moloney, 
Anna  (Dwyer)  Mullin, 
Mrs.  Anna  Hopkins, 
Mrs.  Warren  H.  Smith, 
Mrs.  W.  M.  Oorbin, 
Miss  Alice  M.  Harrison, 
Mrs.  Merlin  Clark, 
Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Reed, 
Jennie  M.  Smith, 
Morth  Foot  Reynolds, 
Eva  Reynolds  Mead, 
Emma  Loveland, 
Mary  (Flowers)  Mead, 
Mrs.  Martin  Lee, 


RESIDENCE. 

CLASS. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873, 

'74. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1836, 

'40. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1865. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885, 

'86. 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1882, 

'87. 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1882. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1867, 

'68. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1852. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1880, 

'81. 

Benson,  Vt. 

1832. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886, 

'87. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1859. 

Mont  Clair,  IN".  J. 

1866, 

'67. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1875. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1867, 

'68. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1864. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1848, 

'50. 

Bridport,  Vt. 

1833. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1865. 

Low  Hampton,  N.  Y. 

1885. 

Cornwall,  Vt. 

1822. 

Benson,  Vt. 

1854. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1884, 

'87. 

Ira,  Vt. 

1884, 

'86. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1857. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1852. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1864. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt* 

1867. 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1852, 

'53. 

Hampton,  IST.  Y. 

1884, 

'86. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1872, 

'73. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1865. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1884. 

Vfest  Rutland,  Vt, 

1882. 

Rutland  Vt. 

1841, 

'42,  '43. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1855, 

'56. 

Brandon,  Vt. 

1856. 

Brandon,  Vt 

1863, 

'67. 

Middlebury,  Vt. 

1822, 

'39. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1853, 

'55. 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1848, 

'50, 

Proctor,  Vt. 

1849. 

Proctor,  Vt. 

1858. 

Proctor,  Vt. 

1858. 

West  Rutland,  Vt 

1867. 

Castleton.  Vt. 

1875, 

'77 

00 


CENTENNIAL  REGI8TEB, 


KAMES. 

Miss  Libbie  Whitlock, 

Mrs.  Oara  Stiles. 

Miss  Laura  Sani'ord, 

Frank  Stiles, 

Mrs.  Lucy  Goss, 

Mrs.  A.  Worcester, 

Miss  Jennie  Cheeyer, 

Miss  Luly  Clark, 

Miss  Frank  McOollum, 

Mrs.  Ellen  B.  Mead, 

S.  M.  (Freeman)  Ranney, 

Mrs.  Geo.  H.  Yerder, 

Mrs.  Alice  Houghton, 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Skeeles, 

Jane  A.  l^ortlirop, 

H.  S.  Howard, 

Mrs.  H.  S.  Howard, 

Mrs.  H.  H.  Ross, 

Mrs.  Emma  J.  Inman, 

Mrs.  Harriet  E.  Bibbins, 

Mrs.  Ella  E.  Bunce, 

Laura  L.  Gaines, 

Munson  Barbour, 

Herbert  Freeman, 

Farrand  Parker, 

W.  C.  Langdon, 

A.  H.  Rice, 

E.  N.  Northrop, 

M.  J.  Harrington, 

J.  O.  Phillips, 

Mrs.  0.  0.  Farwell, 

0.  0.  Farwell, 

Mrs.  C.  S.  Lewis, 

Miss  P.  S.  Fletcher, 

Lucy  0.  (Wood)  Clark, 

Marion  (Ormsbee)  Bascom, 

Miss  Addie  0.  Royce, 

Chloe  J.  (Wood)  Potter, 

John  H.  Hoyt, 

Nina  D.  Clark, 

Lillie  T.  Clark, 

Frances  McCoUum, 

Mrs.  Harvey  Bishop, 

Willie  Evans, 

P.  W.  Freeman, 

S.  L.  Hazard,  Jr., 

Helen  Hutchinson, 


KESIDEHCE. 

CLASS. 

New  York. 

1876,  '77. 

Castleton,  VL 

1877. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1882,  '87. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1853,  '53. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1852,  '55. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1870,  '75. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1870. 

Lansingburgh,  N.  Y. 

1870. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1833. 

Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

1846 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1855. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1880. 

Burlington,  Vt. 

1864 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1845. 

Benson,  Vt. 

1860. 

Benson,  Vt. 

1862. 

Burlington,  Vt. 

1862. 

Hampton,  N.  Y. 

1852,  '53. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1860. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1869. 

Benson,  Vt. 

1871,  '73. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1850. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1822, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1862,  '67, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1881. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1868, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1870. 

Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1882,  '85. 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1858,  '60. 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1848,  '51. 

Poultney,  Vt.       * 

1880,  '81. 

Bridport,  Vt. 

1849,  '50. 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1873. 

Orwell,  Vt. 

1860,  '62. 

Orwell,  Vt. 

Under  Miss  Haskell, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1862. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1882,  '87. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

1879,  '82. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873. 

Lansingburg,  N.  Y. 

1871. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873. 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1879,  '80. 

West  Castleton,  Vt. 

1865,  'iS^, 

Columbus,  N.  C. 

1885,  '87. 

CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


61 


NAMES. 

RESIDEJ^CB. 

CLASS 

Maurice  Morairty, 

Ira,  Vt. 

1879, 

'80. 

Carlie  H.  Witherell, 

Oakeland,  Me. 

1877. 

Lonisa  Parkliurst  Davis, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1860. 

0.  S.  (Dickinson)  Norton. 

,    Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1848, 

'49. 

Mary  K.  Norton, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1882, 

'83. 

Lydia  H.  Fish, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1834. 

Carlie  J.  Gid dings, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885, 

'87. 

Everett  A.  Potter, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1884, 

'87. 

Hugh  S.  Sears, 

Putnam,  N.  Y. 

1881. 

H.  W.  Buel, 

Whitehall,  N.  Y. 

1838, 

'42. 

H.  G.  Sheldon, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1852, 

'53. 

Fred  L.  Pond, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1S86. 

Helen  M.  Fish, 

West  Haven,  Vt. 

1864. 

Lewis  W.  Francis, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1873. 

Maggie  A.  Ryan, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Maggie  A.  Lyons, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1886. 

Julie  D.  Clark, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1877. 

Chas.  H.  Carl  on, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1880. 

S.  B.  Clark, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1836, 

'38. 

John  H.  Remington, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1833, 

'39. 

Patrick  Kennedy, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885. 

Wm.  La  Quire, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1876. 

Miss  E.  A.  Iluntoon, 

Oakland,  Cal. 

— — 

Edith  M.  Jackson, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1887. 

C.  H.  Brown, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1879. 

Sarah  H.  Long, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1880. 

Mrs.  Minnie  B.  Tuttle, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1871, 

'73. 

Cad  (Langdon)  Knowlson, 

Poultney,   Vt. 

1854. 

D.  R.  Barker, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Walter  Jones, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

J.  Dwyer, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

H.  S.  Lockwood, 

New  York  City. 

1877. 

Mrs.  C.  (W.)  Eldridge, 

Cambridge,  N.  Y. 

1860. 

E.  S.  Woodward, 

Cambridge,  N.  Y. 

1863. 

Geo.  H.  Beaman, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1823. 

Laura  A.  Westover, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1862. 

Mary  L.  Smith, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1865. 

Ellen  A.  (Gorham)  Mead, 

Proctor,  Vt. 

1854. 

Lucy  E.  Wadsworth, 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

1862, 

'63. 

Ida  M.  Fosburgh, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1886. 

'87. 

EdnaE.Phalen, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1885, 

'87. 

Lerr  Babbitt, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1865. 

H.  G.  Perry, 

Kansas. 

1870. 

Fannie  E.  Brown, 

Hubbard  ton,  Vt. 

1880, 

'81. 

Matie  Jakway, 

West  Haven,  Vt. 

1887. 

Merritt  Bresee, 

Hub  bard  ton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Minnie  (Fennell)  Baldwin, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1875. 

CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


NAMES. 

EESIDENCE. 

CLASS. 

Kellie  F.  Dewey, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1875. 

I.  Y.  Fuller, 

New  York  City. 

1887. 

W.  F.  Barrett, 

New  York  City. 

1887. 

Elma  E.  Carter, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1882. 

Mary  McMahon, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Annie  McKeogb, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Lilian  Walker, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1887. 

L.  F.  Hovey, 

East  Orange,  N.  J. 

1862,  '64. 

Rebekali  m'.  Fish, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1831,  '32. 

BvaE.  Shelton, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Loiza  (Barrett)  Vail, 

Middletown,  Vt. 

1840. 

M.  E.  Vail, 

Middletown,  Vt. 

Under  Mr.  Clark 

Mrs.  Lucy  Barrett, 

Middletown,  Vt. 

1838. 

Miss  E.  H.  Vail, 

Middletown,  Vt. 

1840,  '42. 

Mrs.  Josie  B.  Clarke, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1853. 

Annie  E.  Newton, 

Wallingford,  Vt. 

18S7. 

Helena  B.  Smith, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1887. 

Jennie  M.  Pratt, 

Bridport,  Vt. 

Under  Williams. 

Hattie  H.  Eanney, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1879. 

C.  E.  Ellis, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Howard. 

John  H.  Williams, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Howard. 

Mrs.  E.  A.  (Winn)  Cluff, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

F.  A.  Morse, 

West  Eutland,  Vt. 

1848,  '51. 

E.  L.  Allen, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1853. 

J.  N.  Hooker, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1880,  '81. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Allen, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Miss  Julia  L.  Canton, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1876. 

Arthur  B.  Ward, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1876,  '78. 

Cornelia  (Allen)  Dyer, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1850. 

Lucretia  R.  Eedfield, 

Troy,  N.  Y. 

1860. 

Clara  E.  Woodward, 

West  Eutland,  Vt. 

1881. 

Lucy- (Mason)  Young, 

Fort  Edward,  N.  Y. 

1856. 

Mrs.  S.  A.  Goodnough, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1837. 

Mrs.  Harriet  K.  Davy, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Mrs.  Emma  Griswold, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1856. 

James  Adams, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1832. 

Margaret  K.  Adams, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1864. 

C.  N.  Thomas, 

Port  Henry,  N.  Y. 

1861,  '62. 

E.  T.  Ellis, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1849,  '50. 

Albert  H.  Smith, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1853,  '62. 

L.  M.  Carpenter, 

Chester,  Vt. 

1843,  '44,  45. 

Anne  H.  Sherman, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1871,  '72. 

A.  J.  Phelps, 

Orwell,  Vt. 

1872. 

D.  E.  Atwood, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1842. 

Maud  Moody, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1887. 

Selina  Ellis, 

Greenfield,  111. 

1S64. 

Mrs.  Jennie  Comstock, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1856. 

CENTENI^IAL  REGISTER, 


63 


KAMES. 

RESIDEi^CE. 

CLASS. 

Mrs.  Maria  Moody, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1867. 

Alice  B.  Delehant3% 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1884, 

'85. 

Kate  H.  Delehanty, 

Hydeville,  Vt. 

1887. 

Jessie  L.  Ward, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1880. 

Katie  Marshall, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1882, 

'84. 

A.  J.  Dickinson, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1860, 

'61. 

James  Brennan, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1845. 

K.  B.  Westover, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1846. 

Carlos  Sanford, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1847, 

'48,  '49. 

Jos.  E.  Manley,  \ 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1851, 

'54. 

Electa  (Porter)  Manley, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1852, 

'55. 

T.  D.  Dewey, 

East  Poultney,  Vt. 

1832. 

James  M.  Ketcliam, 

Sudbury,  Vt. 

1842, 

'43. 

Fred  M.  Langdon, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1881, 

'87. 

Miss  M.  A.  Walker, 

Benson,  Vt. 

18i7. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Perkins, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

Sarah  (Perkins)  Shepard, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock, 

Mrs.  Nancy  Fish, 

West  Haven,  Vt. 

1835. 

Mary  L.  Noyes, 

Chicago,  111. 

1852. 

Laura  G.  Noyes, 

Chicago,  111. 

1879. 

Mrs.  Ida  0.  Adams, 

Danby,  Vt. 

1875. 

Mrs.  Weltha  L.  (0.)  Todd 

,  East  Wallingford,  Vt. 

1872. 

E.  E.  McGovern, 

Vergennes,  Vt. 

1871. 

Amelia  E.  Brown,  M.  D., 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1861, 

'62. 

Mrs.  Abbie  (Mills)  Warner 

•,  Brandon,  Vt. 

1872, 

'74. 

Mrs.  Jennie  (Oroft)  Marsh 

,  Clarendon,  Vt. 

1874. 

Mrs.  Ella  (Marsh)  Spafford,  Rutland,  Vt. 

1874. 

Miss  Julia  Kelley, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1870. 

Mrs.  Agnes  Davis, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1880, 

'81. 

Miss  Ella  B.  Mills, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1873. 

Miss  Florence  Mills, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1873, 

'75. 

Mrs.  Ida  (Squier)  Perry, 

Ira,  Vt. 

1874. 

Mrs.Sarah(Buffum)Oolburn,Mt.  Holly,  Vt. 

1884. 

Minnie  0.  Gorton, 

North  Clarendon,  Vt. 

1884. 

William  Gilmore, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1824. 

Leonora  E.  Walker, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1833. 

Julia  B.  Clifford, 

Minneapolis,  la. 

1881, 

'85. 

Delia  L.  Farwell, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1883. 

Hattie  E.  Hunter, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1886. 

Geo.  H.  Beaman, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1823. 

Geo.  A.  Mietzke, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1858, 

'59. 

Mr.  Franklin  Sanford, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1848. 

Mrs.  James  McMullen, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1860. 

Henry  P.  Higley  and  wife. 

Beloit,  Wis. 

1856. 

P.  G.  Phalen, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1884. 

Flora  M.  Barrows, 

Woodstock,  Vt. 

1884, 

'^^, 

Mrs.  Emma  T.  B.  Eoss, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1874. 

64 


CENTENNIAL  REGISTER. 


NAMES. 

RESIDENCE. 

CLASS. 

Laura  (Brown)  Oramton, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1374. 

E.  R.  Sfc.  John, 

Hubbardton,  Vt. 

1861. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Squier, 

Swanton,  Vt. 

1833,  '40. 

Mary  (Hawley)  Woodward 

,  Saratoga,  N.  Y. 

1861,  '62. 

W.  H.  Burke, 

Chicago,  111. 

1874,  '75. 

0.  H.  Griswold, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Miss  Haskell 

G.  F.  Parker, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

1868. 

H.  H.  Brown, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

184L 

E.  W.  French, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1834,  '35. 

L.  D.  Ross, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1846. 

L.  M.  Walker, 

Benson,  Vt. 

1837. 

Cyiil  Carpenter, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1832. 

Cornelius  C.  Pierce, 

Clarendon,  Vt. 

1847. 

J.  Addie  (Pierce)  Fuller, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1882. 

George  N.  Eayres, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1843. 

R.  Hitchcock, 

West  Haven,  Vt. 

1839. 

Lewis  Pritchard, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

Wm.  C.  Moulton,  Jr., 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873. 

Hale  Tomlinson, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1859. 

William  H.  Rowland, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1876. 

Joseph  Warner,  M.  D., 

Crown  Point,  N.  Y. 

1849. 

Pliny  Adams, 

Whitehall,  N.  Y. 

1833. 

K.  J.  Johnson, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1873. 

Bertha  Miller, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

G.  W.  Congdon, 

Clarendon,  Vt. 

1887. 

J.  A.  Thornton, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1884. 

Miss  Carrie  B.  Griswold, 

Rutland,  Vt. 

1872,  '83,  '84. 

Mary  A.  Hayes, 

Cookville,  Vt. 

1879,  '80,  '81. 

N.  R.  Nichols, 

Norwich,  Vt. 

1866,  '67. 

Kate  A.  Farnham, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1870. 

Helyn  L.  Fish, 

West  Rutland,  Vt. 

1884. 

Anne  L.  Webb, 

North  Clarendon,  Vt. 

1884. 

Julia  E.  Parsons, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1884. 

Mabel  K.  Lake, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1887. 

Samuel  Storrs  Howe, 

Iowa  City,  Iowa. 

1822, '24,  1831, '32. 

L.  H.  Sheldon, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1861. 

W.  C.  Moulton, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1844. 

C.  R.  E.  (Vail)  Ladd, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 



Elmer  E.  Paul, 

Wells,  Vt. 

1879. 

Geo.  D.  Wheaton, 

Pittsford,  Vt. 

1854,  '56,  '57. 

Fannie  Lewis  Edson, 

East  Pittsford,  Vt. 

1873,  '80. 

Julia  M.  Sheldon, 

Pawlet,  Vt. 

1859. 

Mrs.  C.  E.  Taylor, 

Pawlet,  Vt. 

1857. 

Mrs.  H.  Wescott, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1842. 

M.  Maynard, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1845. 

Nell  Clark, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1880,  '81. 

Maggie  M.  Phalen, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1884 

CENTENNIAL  BEGI8TEE. 


65 


NAMES. 

llESTDEKCE. 

CLASS. 

Chas.  McLau2:liliii, 

Putnam,  N.  Y. 

1881. 

Mrs.  F.  C.  Eddy, 

Faitland,  Vt. 

Mrs.  G.  Valiquette, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

Mrs.  A.  Valiquette, 

Eutland,  Vt. 



J.  W.  Williams, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

John  Lyons, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1887. 

Albert  ¥.  Lake, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1858. 

M.  Clark, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1817. 

J.  E.  Dewey, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1846. 

Mile  Ingalsbe, 

South  Hartford,  N.  Y. 

1837. 

F.  t).  Douglas, 

Whiting,  Vt. 

1846. 

Mary  A.  (Eussegue)  Douglas,  Whiting,  Vt. 

1863. 

C.  H.  Granger, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1863, 

'64. 

Mrs.  C.  H.  Granger, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1864. 

H.  E.  Armstrong, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1856, 

'58, 

Harry  0.  Armstrong, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885, 

'86. 

Maud  Armstrong, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1886. 

H.  Ainsworth, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1840. 

Eichard  Evan, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1870, 

'75. 

Hattie  K.  Farnham, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1887. 

Minnie  A.  Farnham, 

Poultney,  Vt. 

1887. 

Clara  E.  Moore, 

West  Eupert,  Vt. 

1886. 

A.  W.  Gardner, 

Middletown  Spa.,  Vt. 

1880. 

H.  W.  Hosford, 

Poultney,  Vt.' 

1880. 

Edwin  J.  Williams, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

187L 

Eolland  C.  Eeed, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

Under  Howard. 

C.  C.  Nichols, 

Castleton,  Vt, 

1843. 

Emily  (Spaulding)  Nichols 

5,  Castleton,  Vt. 

1849. 

Hattie  Janes, 

West  Cornwall,  Vt. 

1855, 

'56. 

Eichard  M.  Spaulding, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1849. 

Annie  J.  Bailey, 

Benson,  Vt. 

Mrs.  Henry  Vf  ilson. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Under  Hallock. 

Elizabeth  C.  Langdon, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

Under  Hallock. 

F.  H.  Shepard, 

Fair  Haven,  Vt. 

1861. 

S.  G.  Cooke, 

Knoxville,  Tenn. 

1864, 

'67. 

Mrs.  0.  H.  Sheldon, 

Eutland,  Vt. 

1862, 

'67. 

Lewis  Francis, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Trustee. 

Harry  M.  Brown, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1881, 

'87. 

Carrie  Hutchinson, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1882. 

Miss  E.  S.  Spencer, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1865. 

William  Sanford, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1885. 

Henry  C.  Eumsey, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1861, 

'62. 

Dorleska  (Bradley)  Eumsey,  Castleton,  Vt. 

1857. 

Ella  A.  French, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1878. 

Chester  L.  Clark, 

Castleton,  Vt. 

1857, 

'59. 

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Dayton,  L.  M.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Denison,  Sarah  A.,  Pittsford,  Vt. 
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HISTORICAL  MEMORANDA, 


ACTS  OF  INCORPORATION. 
I. 

An  Act  for  establishing  a  County  Grammar  School  at  Castleton,  in  the  county  of 
Rutland,  passed  October  15,  1787. 

Be  it  enacted  hy  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Vermont  : 

That  the  place  for  keeping  a  county  grammar  school,  in  and  for  Rutland  county, 
shall  be  at  the  house  commonly  known,  by  the  name  of  the  New  School  House,  near 
Doctor  William  Woolcott's  in  said  Castleton:  provided,  that  the  county  of  Rutland 
shall  not  be  at  any  cost  or  charge  in  completing,  or  repairing  the  same. 

II. 

Ai^  Act  confirming  a  Grammar  School  in  the  County  of  Rutland. 

Section  1.  It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont, that  the  Reverend  Elihu  Smith,  the  Honorable  James  Witherell,  and  Messieurs 
Ohauncey  Langdon,  Aruna  W.  Hyde,  Theopilus  Flagg,  Samuel  Shaw,  James  Gil- 
more,  Amos  Thompson,  John  Mason,  Enos  Merrill,  and  Isaac  Clark,  and  such  other 
person,  or  persons,  as  shall  be  appointed,  in  the  manner  and  to  the  number  herein- 
after directed,  and  their  successors  in  office,  shall  at  all  times  be  the  board  of  trus- 
tees for  the  County  Grammar  School  for  the  County  of  Rutland  and  State  of 
Vermont,  and  shall  be  known  by  the  name  and  style  of  the  Corporation  of  Rutland 
Comity  Grammar  School :  and  by  that  name  and  style  shall  and  may  sue  and  be 
sued,  prosecute  and  defend,  and  have  all  the  powers  incident  to,  and  be  a  body 
politic  for  the  purposes  of  promoting  the  interest  of  said  grammar  school ;  and  shall 
have  power  to  take,  by  gift,  grant,  purchase,  or  devise,  and  hold  for  the  benefit  of 
said  corporation,  any  estate,  real  or  personal,  that  is,  or  may  be,  in  any  way,  given, 
granted,  sold,  bequeathed,  or  appropriated  to,  or  for  the  use  of  the  grammar  school 
aforesaid;  and  lease,  rent  and  improve  the  same  to  the  best  advantage  for  said  gram- 
mar school;  and  shall  also  have  power  to  elect,  appoint,  support  and  remove,  from 
time  to  time,  all  such  preceptors  and  instructors  as  they  shall  judge  necessary,  and 
make  any  contract  whatever,  consistent  with  the  laws  of  this  State,  which  they  shall 
deem  beneficial  to  said  corporation  ;  and  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  powers  by 
this,  or  any  other  law,  vested  in  said  corporation. 

Sec.  3.  And  it  is  hereby  further  enacted,  that  so  often  as  it  shall  appear 
necessary  for  the  benefit  of  said  institution,  that  addition  should  be  made  to  the 
number  of  trustees,  to  supply  vacancies,  or  otherwise,  said  trustees,  or  their  succes- 
sors, shall  have  power  to  elect,  by  ballot,  such  and  so  many  as  they  shall  think 
proper,  so  that  the  number  shall  not  exceed  twelve,  and  the  majority  of  the  trustees 
sh.all  "be  a  quorum  to  act  in  all  cases. 


Q8  HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA. 

Sec.  3.  And  it  is  hereby  further  enacted  that  the  house  in  Castleton,  in  said 
county,  lately  erected  on  the  spot  where  stood  the  school  house  for  said  county, 
which  was  lately  consumed  by  jQre,  be  and  is  hereby  established  as  a  County  G-ram- 
mar  School  House,  for  said  county,  so  long  as  the  inhabitants  of  said  Oastleton  shall 
keep  the  same,  or  any  other  house  at  the  same  place,  in  good  repair  for  the  purpose 
aforesaid,  to  the  acceptance  of  the  county  court  for  said  county. 

Passed  October  29,  1805. 

III. 

An"  Act  in  addition  to  an  act  passed  October 29, 1805,  entitled  ''An  Act  confirming 
a  Grammar  School  in  the  county  of  Rutland." 

Section  1.  It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont, that  whenever  any  member  of  said  corporation  shall  remove  with  his  family 
out  of  this  State,  to  reside  more  than  thirty  miles  from  said  grammar  school,  his 
seat  shall  be  considered  vacant. 

Sec.  2.  It  is  hereby  further  enacted  that  a  majority  of  the  trustees  who  reside 
in  the  town  of  Oastleton  shall  be  a  quorum  to  act  in  all  cases,  any  law  or  usage  to 
the  contrary  notwithstanding  :  provided,  nevertheless,  that  the  number  of  the  trus- 
tees resident  in  said  Oastleton,  who  may  be  present  to  transact  any  business  shall  not 
be  less  than  four. 

Passed  Nov.  8,  1814. 

IV. 

A^r  Act  in  addition  to  and  amendment  of  an  act  entitled  ''  An  Act  confirming  a 

Grammar  School  in  the  county  of  Rutland,"  passed  October  29,  1805. 

Sectiok  1.  It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont, that  the  name  and  style  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  established 
at  Oastleton,  in  the  county  of  Rutland,  be,  and  the  same  is,  hereby  altered  to  the 
name  and  style  of  Tlu  Vermont  Classical  High  Scliooh 

Sec.  2.  It  is  hereby  further  enacted,  that  by  and  under  the  name  and  style  of 
the  Vermont  Classical  High  School,  the  corporation  of  said  Grammar  School  may, 
and  shall,  have  and  enjoy  all  the  rights,  privileges  and  immunities  to  which  they 
are,  or  were,  entitled,  by  and  under  their  former  name,  by  virtue  of  said  act,  passed 
the  29th  day  of  October,  1805,  or  otherwise. 

Passed  October  29,  1828. 

V. 

An  Act  repealing  an  act  therein  mentioned. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Vermont,  that  an 
act  passed  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  October,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  twenty- 
eight,  altering  the  name  and  style  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  estab- 
lished at  Oastleton,  in  the  county  of  Rutland,  to  the  name  and  style  of  the  Vermont 
Classical  High  School,  be,  and  the  same  is,  Iicreby  repealed. 

Passed  Nov.  1,  1830. 


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HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA.  69 

YI. 

Aisr  Act  in  addition  to  **' An  Act  confirming  a  Grrammar  School  in  the  county  of 

Eutland,"  passed  October  29,  1805. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  x^ssembly  of  the  State  of  Vermont,  that  the 
second  section  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  addition,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  so 
altered  as  to  enable  said  corporation  to  extend  the  board  of  trustees  to  any  number 
not  exceeding  twenty. 

Passed  Not.  4,  1835. 

YII. 

Ak  Act  to  authorize  the  Trustees  of  the  Eutland  County  Grammar  School  to 
transfer  their  school  building  and  other  school  property. 

Sec.  1.  The  Trustees  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  an  Institution 
located  at  Castleton,  in  the  County  of  Rutland,  established  by  the  Legislature  of 
this  State,  are  hereby  authorized  to  transfer,  by  deed,  the  said  Grammar  School 
property,  both  real  and  personal,  except  the  rents  and  reversions  of  lands  granted  to 
grammar  schools,  and  any  moneys  in  their  hands  belonging  to  said  Institution,  to 
any  graded  school  district  or  other  parties,  whenever  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  it  may  be  necessary  or  expedient  so  to  do ;  provided,  that  the  avails  of 
such  transfer,  if  any,  after  the  payment  of  the  just  indebtedness  of  said  corporation, 
shall  be  devoted  to  educational  purposes. 

Sec.  2.  The  deed  referred  to  in  section  one  may,  on  the  part  and  in  behalf 
of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees,  be  executed  by  any  one  of  the  members  of  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  who  may  be  authorized  so  to  do  by  a  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  said 
Board  of  Trustees  at  any  meeting  duly  called  for  that  purpose,  and  notice  of  which 
shall  have  been  served  upon  each  member  of  said  Board  of  Trustees,  either  verbally 
or  by  letter  through  the  mails. 

Sec.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Passed  November  24,  1874. 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Rev.  Elihu  Smith,  1805.  Zimri  Howe,  1819. 

Hon.  James  Witherell,  1805.  John  Meacham,  1819. 

Chauncey  Langdon,  1805.  Henry  Howe,  1822. 

Aruna  W.  Hyde,  1805.  Selah  H.  Merrill,  182G. 

Theopilus  Flagg,  1805.  James  Adams,  1827. 

Samuel  Shaw,  1805.  Ezekiel  Buel,  1827. 

James  Gilmore,  T805.  Ovid  Miner,  1828. 

Amos  Thompson,  1805.  Solomon  Foote,  1828. 

John  Mason,  1805.  Joseph  Steele,  1830. 

Enos  Merrill,  1805.  Joseph  Perkins,  1831. 

Isaac  Clark,  1805.  B.  F.  Langdon,  1835. 

Rollin  C,  Mallary,  1807.  Henry  Hodges,  1835. 

David  Sanford,  1808.  John  Kellogg,  1835. 

Leonard  E.  Lathrop,  1815.  Wm,  C.  Kittredge,  1835. 

Christopher  M.  Minot,  1815.  Ambrose  L.  Brown,  1835. 

Selah  Gridley,  1815.  Alanson  Mitchell,  1835. 


70 


HI8T0EI0AL    MEMORANDA, 


O.  N.  Dana,  1837. 
Aruna  W.  Hyde,  1838. 
Harvey  O.  Higley,  1839. 
Almon  Warner,  1840. 
Aldace  Walker,  1851. 
Azariah  Hyde,  1851. 
Hyde  Westover,  1851. 
Timothy  W.  Eice,  1851. 
Willard  Child,  1855. 
C.  M.  Willard,  1856. 
Beni.  F.  Adams,  1856. 


Lewis  Francis,  1865. 
John  Howe,  1865. 
Charles  Langdon,  1869. 
Wm.  N.  Batclielder,  1869. 
Pitt  W.  Hyde,  1869. 
Josiah  N.  Northrop,  1869. 
Farrand  Parker,  1869. 
L.  W.  Preston,  1870. 
Samuel  Williams,  1873. 
Jolm  H.  Langdon,  1873. 


PRESENT  BOARD. 


Merritt  Clark,  1835. 
Carlos  S.  Sherman,  1856. 
Charles  Sheldon,  1863. 
W.  M.  C.  Guernsey,  1865. 
James  Adams,   1865. 
Egbert  H.  Armstrong,  1869. 
Andrew  ]Sr.  Adams,  1869. 
Andrew  Clark,  1869. 
Hiram  Ainsworth,  1869. 


Jerome  B.  Bromley,  1872. 
Henry  Clark,  1872. 
Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  1881. 
Henry  L,  Clark,  1885. 
Walter  E.  Howard,  1885. 
Alfred  E.  Higley,  1885. 
Dwighfc  D.  Cole,  1885. 
Fred  L.  Eeed,  1885. 


PRESIDENTS. 


Elihu  Smith,  1807. 
Chauncey  Langdon,  1829. 
John  Mason,  1831. 
Enos  Merrill,  1835. 
Joseph  Steele,  1849. 


Willard  Child,  1855. 
Lewis  Francis,  1865. 
PittW.  Hyde,  1873. 
Andrew  N".  Adams,  1882. 


SECRETARIES. 


A.  W.  Hyde,  1807. 
Robert  Temple,  1807. 
Rollin  C.  Mallary,  1815. 
Selah  Gridley,  1819. 
Zimri  Howe,  1822. 
A.  Warner,  1841. 


Zimri  Howe,  1842. 
B.  F.  Langdon,  1845. 
Zimri  Howe,  1853. 

B,  F.  Langdon,    1854. 

C.  M.  Willard,  1857. 
J.  B.  Bromley,  1873. 


TREASURERS. 


Enos  Merrill,  1807. 
Zimri  Howe,  1828. 
H.  0.  Higley,  1846. 
Timothy  W.  Rice,  1852. 


John  Howe,  1865. 

B.  F.  Adams,  1869. 
H.  Ainsworth,  1877. 

C.  S.  Sherman,  1884. 


HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA,  71 

SUxMMARY  OF  CATALOGUES. 

October  5,  1826. 
Printed  at  Oastleton,  by  Ovid  Miner.     Solomon  Foot,  A.  B.,  principal.     Lewis 
M.  Walker,  assistant.     Gentlemen,  46  ;  ladies  8 ;  tofcal  54.      Tuition,  $3,  $3.50,  $4. 
Board,  11.25  to  $1.50. 

August  20,  1833. 
Charles  Walker  and  L.  F.  Clark,  principals.     Leonard  Rawson,  Catherine  Sax- 
ton,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  40;  ladies,  30;  total,  70. 

November,  1833. 
Rev.  Charles  Walker,  Lucius  F.  Clark,  A.  M.,  principals.     Alexander  Buel,  A. 
M,,  Miss  Ruth  S.  Russell,  Miss  Mary  Ann  Ackley,  Miss  Charlotte  H.  Kitchell,  Miss 
Mary  E.  Jannes,  Miss  Mary  W.  Bentley,  assistants.      Gentlemen,  107;  ladies,  73; 
total  180. 

November,  1834. 
L.  F.  Clark,  A.  M.,   principal.     A.  W.  Buel,  A.  M.,  H.  D.  Kitchell,  H.  W. 
Fairfield,  G.  C.  Ruggles,  A,  L.  Bingham,  Ruth  S.  Russell,  Mary  A.  Ackley,  Mary 
B.  Fairfield,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  157;  ladies,  145;  total  302. 

November,  1835. 
L.  F.  Clark,  A.  M.,  principal.     J.  B.  Townsend,  A.  B.,  H.  D.  Kitchell,  H.  W. 
Fairfield,  G.  C.  Ruggles,  Moses  French,  Miss  R.  S.  Russell,  Miss  M.  A.  Ackley, 
Miss  Clarinda  Lake,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  123  ;  ladies,  133  ;  total,  256. 

November,  1836. 
Rev.  L.  F.  Clark,  A.  M.,  principal.  Horatio  Bryant,  A.  B.,  Augustus  Morse, 
A.  Harlow,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Bryant,  Miss  S.  G.  Starr,  Miss  Clarinda  Lake,  assist- 
ant teachers.  Gentlemen,  110;  ladies,  118;  total  228.  Had  been  under  the  present 
management  three  years  and  a  half  with  a  total  attendance  of  gentlemen,  335  ;  ladies, 
338 ;  total,  673.  Boarders,  396  ;  classical  scholars,  178  ;  from  out  of  town,  487  ;, 
from  out  of  the  State,  149. 

November,  1837. 
Rev.   L.  F.   Clark,  A.  M.,  Rev.  E.  T.  Mack,  A.  M.,  principals.     Anastasius- 
Menaeus,  Andrew  J.  Ketcham,  Miss  Almira  Hodges,  Miss  Emeline  Howe,  Mrs.  L.  M. 
G.  Swaine,  Miss  Clarinda  Lake,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  138;  ladies,  112;  total  250. 

July  22,  1839. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M  ,  principal.     Samuel  Hurlbut,  Jr.,  A.  B.,  Samuel 
H.  Root,  Stamos  S.  Trickaliotes,  Charles  J.  Kathrens,  Miss  Catharine  Bent,  Miss 
Elizabeth  M.  A.  Robinson,  assistant  teachers.     Gentlemen,  88;  ladies,  ^^\  total,   154. 

July  23,  1840. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.     Samuel  Hurlbut,  Jr.,  A.  B.,  Lewis 
Warner,  Miss  Luna  Miller,  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  A.  Robinson,  Miss  Eliza  Weeks,  assis- 
tants.    Gentlemen,  114;  ladies,  78;  total,  192. 


72  HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA. 

July  20,  1842. 
Eev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.     Samuel  Hurlbut,  Jr.,  A.  M.,  Ezra 
S.  Carr,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  Nancy  M.  Miner,  Miss  Jane  A.  Andrews,  Miss  Anna  E.  Law- 
rence, assistants.     Gentlemen,  109;  ladies,  76;  total  185. 

July  20,  1843. 
Eev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  principal.     Samnel   Hurlbut,  Jr.,  h,  M.,  John  0. 
Churchill,  A.  B.,  Ezra  S.  Carr,  M.  D.,  M.  Edouard  Modeste  Poisson,  Nancy  M.  Miner, 
Harriet  S.  Andrews,  Caroline  A.  Branch,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  99;  ladies,  53; 
total,  152. 

July  20,  1844. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.     John   C.  Churchill,  A.  B.,  Eber  D. 
Hunger,  A.  B.,  Isaac  Knapp,  A.  B.,  James  Hope,  Mrs.  Nancy  M.  Miner,  Miss  Harriet 

S.  Andrews,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  111;  ladies,  77  ;  total,  188. 

July  22,  1846. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.     Rev.   James  Tufts,  A.   M.,  Eber  D. 
Munger,  A.M.,  William  Pease,  M.  B.,  E.   S.  Carr,   A.  M.,   Godfroi  Beaudouin,  Miss 
Jane  C.  Kellogg,  Miss  Charlotte  Moore,  Miss  Martha  Wheeler,  assistants.     Gentle- 
men, 78;  ladies,  93  ;  total,  171. 

July  22,  1847. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,   A.  M.,  principal.     Jonathan   Lane,    A.  B.,    William 
Pease,  M.  B.,  E.  8.  Carr,  Selah  G.  Perkins,  A.  B.,  Mademoiselle  Nancy  Jefferies,  Miss 
Sophia  C.  Hayden,  Miss  Caroline  S.  Haven,  assistants.      Gentlemen,  80  ;  ladies,  93  ; 
total,  173. 

July  22,  1848. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.  Warren  W.  Winchester,  A.  B., 
William  Pease,  M.  B.,  E.  8.  Carr,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Jonathan  A.  Wainwright,  A.  B., 
Miss  Sophia  C.  Hayden,  Mademoiselle  Nancy  J.  Jefferies,  Miss  Catherine  M.  Sever- 
ance, Miss  Mary  A.  Shattuck,  Miss  Meliscent  H.  Shattuck,  assistants.  Gentlemen, 
79;  ladies,  114  ;  total,  193. 

July  19,  1849. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.  Warren  W.  Winchester,  A.  B.,  E. 
S.  Carr,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  James  Hope,  William  C.  Benton,  M.  D.,  Lucius  Squier, 
Quincy  Blakely,  J.  Emory  Horr,  Miss  Sophia  C.  Hayden,  Mrs.  Catherine  M.  Win- 
ohester,  Mademoiselle  Nancy  J.  Jefferies,  Miss  Mary  A.  Shattuck,  assistants.  Gen- 
tlemen, 109  ;  ladies,  133  ;  total,  242. 

July  16,  1851. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.      McKendree  Petty,   A.  B.,  Justin 
E.  Simonds,  M.  D.,  Miss  Mary  E.  Warren,  Miss  Helen  A.  Perry,  Miss  Sybil  N.  Hib- 
bard.   Miss  Harriette   Kilbourn,  Miss  Harriette  S.  Nash,  assistants.     Gentlemen, 
54 ;  ladies,  151  ;  total,  205, 


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HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA.  73 

July  19,  1850. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.     McKendree  Petty,  A.  B.,  E.  S. 
Carr,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Mr.  James  Hope,  Miss  Mary  E.  Warren,  Miss  Rachel  E.  San- 
derson, Mademoiselle  Nancy  J.  Jefleries,  Miss  Frances  S.  Shaw,   Miss  Harriette  S. 
IsTash,  Miss  Harriette  Kilbourn,  assistants.    Gentlemen,  101  ;  ladies,  131  ;  total,  232. 

July  14, 1852. 
Eey.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,   principal.     Rev.  Samuel   M.  Wood,  A.  M., 
John  Hawkins,  Miss   Mary  E.  Warren,  Miss  Lois  0.  June,  Miss  Sybil  N.  Hibbard, 
Miss  Julia  E.  Bassett,  Miss  Elizabeth  C.  Rice,  assistants.      Gi-entlemen,  43  ;  ladies, 
139  ;  total,  182. 

July  14,  1853. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.  Rev.  Samuel  M.  Wood,  A.  M., 
Samuel  W.  Boardman,  A.  B.,  Mrs.  M.  Barron,  Miss  Jane  E.  Haskell,  Miss  Harriet 
Kilburn,  Miss  Hester  M.  Hunt,  Miss  Harriet  Haskell,  Miss  Melinda  Dyer,  Miss 
Eunice  W.  Butler,  Miss  Frances  A.  Haven,  Miss  Clara  A.  Kilburn,  Miss  Cornelia 
J.  Hawkins,  assistants.  Gentlemen,  72 ;  ladies,  147  ;  total,  219. 

June  13,  1854. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.  Rev.  Samuel  M.  Wood,  A.  M-, 
Samuel  W.  Boardman,  A.  M.,  Edward  Aiken,  A.  M.,  Mrs.  M.  T.  M.  Barron,  Mrs. 
C.  M.  Johnson,  Miss  Frances  A.  Haven,  Miss  Alzina  M.  Churchill,  Miss  Mary  H. 
Wheeler,  Miss  Melinda  Dyer,  Miss  Susan  D.  Cole,  Miss  Olive  M.  Eggleston,  Miss 
Amelia  A.  Lawrence,  Miss  Helen  M,  Smith,  Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Abernethy,  Miss  Abbie 
S.  Smith,  Miss  Helen  J.  Gray,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  G7  ;  ladies,  142  ;  total,  209. 

July  13,  1855. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A.  M.,  principal.  C.  R.  Ballarrd,  A.  B.,  Miss  Alzina 
M.  Churchill,  Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Abernethy,  Miss  Frances  A.  Haven,  Miss  Mary  E. 
Hight,  Miss  Julia  L.  Chapman,  Mr.  R.  0.  M.  Griswold,  Miss  Charlotte  Langdon, 
Miss  Amelia  L.  Marsh,  Miss  Sarah  P.  White,  Miss  Catherine  H.  Woodward,  assis- 
tants.    Gentlemen,  63  ;  ladies,  152  ;  tot:il,  215. 

July  16.  1856. 
Rev.  Edward  J.  Hallock,  A,  M.,  principal.     C.  R.  Ballard,  A.  B.,  H.  A.  Scott, 
Miss  Sabra  E.  Strong,  Miss  Maria  T.  Conant,  Miss  Mary  E.  Hight,  Miss  Amelia  L. 
Marsh,  Miss  Harriette  Janes,  Miss   Sarah   L.  Scott,  Miss  Eliza  J.  Gearn,  Miss   An- 
nette Samson,  James  Eastwood,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  40  ;  ladies,  125  ;  total,  165. 

July  23,  1857. 
Rev.  Azariah  Hyde,  A.  M.,  principal.  Mrs.  Maria  L.  Hyde,  associate  principal. 
Charles  Rollin  Ballard,  A.  M.,  Miss  Sabra  E.  Strong,  Miss  Amelia  L.  Marsh,  Miss 
Sarah  E.  Everett,  Miss  Lucy  M.  Clough,  Miss  Mary  A.  Perkins,  Miss  L.  Elizabeth 
Smith,  Miss  Clara  E.  Ellery,  Miss  Harriet  E.  Johnson,  assistants.  Gentlemen,  74  ; 
ladies,  124  ;  total,  198. 
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74  HISTOEWAL    MEMORANDA. 

July  21,  1858. 
Rev.  Azariali  Hyde,  A.  M.,  principal.  Mrs.  Maria  L.  Hyde,  associate  principal. 
Stephen  Knowlton,  A.  B.,  Miss  Sabra  E.  Strong,  G-eorge  A.  Mietzke,  Miss  Emily  F. 
Chipman,  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Carpenter,  Miss  Adelia  M.  Hatch,  Miss  Mary  H. 
Hunter,  Miss  Amelia  L.  Marsh,  Miss  Mary  A.  Rockwell,  Miss  Augusta  A.  Warren,. 
assistants.     Gentlemen,  50  ;  ladies,  105;  total,  155. 

July  20,  1859. 
Rev.  Azariah  Hyde,  A.  M.,  principal.     Mrs.  Maria  L.  Hyde,  associate   principaL 
Stephen  Knowlton,  A.  B.,  Mrs.  Frances  L.  Knowlton,  Miss  Louise  M.  Hulett,  G-eorge 
A.  Mietzke,  Miss  Emma  A.  Lee,  Miss  Sabra  E  Strong,  Miss  Emily  F.  Chipman,  Miss 
H.  Adelia  Hatch,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  49;  ladies,  91  ;  total,  140. 

Jaly  18,  1860. 
Stephen  Knowlton,  A.  M.,  principal.    Mrs.  Francos  L.  Knowlton,  associate  prin- 
cipal.    Lyman  S.  Watts,  A.  B.,  George  A.  Mietzke,  S.  L.  Pfeiffer,  Miss  Frances  G. 
Mankin,  Miss  Emma  A.  Lee,  Miss  Lydia  S.  Mankin,  Miss  Harriet  E.  Johnson,  assist- 
ants.    Gentlemen,  47;  ladies,  93;  total,  140. 

July,  1861. 
Rev.   Stephen   Knowlton,  A.  M.,  principal  ;  Mrs.  Frances  L.  Knowlton,  asso- 
ciate principal.    John  K.  Williams,   Thomas  E.    Benedict,  Emma  A.  Lee,  Ellen 
Strong,  Helen  M.  Beckwith,  Susan  Sheldon,  assistants. 

July,  1862. 
Rev.  Stephen    Knowlton,  A.    M.,    principal;    Mrs.    Frances   L.    Knowlton,. 
associate  principal.     Chandler  N.  Thomas,   Thomas  E.  Benedict,  Emma  A.  Lee, 
Mons.  and  Madame  Commette,  Helen  M.  Beckwith,  Anna  J.  Roache,  Louise  K. 
Bugbee,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  53 ;  ladies,  87  ;  total,  140. 

July  15,  1863. 
Miss  Harriet  K  Haskell,  principal.      Russell  M.  Wright,  A.  M.,  Miss  Emily  G.. 
Alden,  Miss  Hester  M.  Hunt,  Mons.   Commette,  Mme.   Commette,   Miss  Sarah   H. 
Hooker,  Miss  Emma  A.  Lee,  Miss  Susan  J.  Pendleton,  Miss  Mary  E.  Miller,  Miss  Delia 
Stowe,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  59  ;  ladies,  117  ;  total,  176. 

July  15,  1864. 
Miss  Harriet  N.  Haskell,  principal.    Miss  Emily  G.  Alden,  Charles  Clark  Harris, 
A.  M.,  Mary  J.  Thayer,  Mons.  Commette,  Mme.   Commette,  Miss  Ellen  S.  Russell^ 
Miss  Susan  Sherman,  Miss  Lena  Ehle,  Miss  Susan  J.  Pendleton,  Miss  Mary   E.  Nye^ 
Miss  Mary  Russell,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  83  ;  ladies,  166  ;  total,  249. 

July  15,  1865. 
Miss  Harriet  N.  Haskell,  principal.  Miss  Emily  G.  Alden,  Miss  Susan  J.  Pendle- 
ton, John  Carrol  Proctor,  A.  B.,  Miss  Susan  E.  Gale,  Mile.  Louise  Kuehl  Seitz,  Miss 
Mary  J.  Thayer,  Miss  Susan  A.  Sherman,  Miss  Sara  J.  Crowley,  Miss  Lucy  K.  Her- 
rill.  Miss  Mary  Russell,  Miss  Emma  L.  Higley,  Miss  Sarah  M.  Boyd,  assistants.  Gen- 
tlemen, 73  ;  ladies,  150  ;  total,  223. 


HISTOBICAL    MEMORANDA.  75 

July  15,  1863. 
Miss  Harriet  K  Haskell,  principal.     Miss  Emily  G.  Alden,  Miss  Susan  J.  Pendle- 
ton, John  B.  Dunbar,  A.  B.,  Geo.  A.  Stearns,  A.  B.,  Mons.  Commette,  Mile.    Kuehl 
Seitz,  Miss  Susan  E.  Gale,   Miss  Emma  A.  Lee,  Miss  Sarah  Carlton,   Miss  Susan  J. 
Jordan,  Miss  Anna  Carlton,  assistants.     Gentlemen,  79  ;  ladies,  115  (?)  ;  total,  194. 

July  17, 1867. 
Miss  Harriet  N.   Haskell,  principal.     Miss  Emily  G.  Alden,  Miss  Susan  J.  Pen- 
dleton, Nathan  R.   Nichols,  A.    B.,  Miss  Jennie  Hopkins,  Miss  Persia  N.  Andrews, 
and  others  previously  noted.     Gentlemen,  82  ;  ladies,  104  ;  total,  186. 

1867-1868. 
Chas.  R.  Ballard,  A.  M.,  principal.     Misses  Wythe,  Park,  Bell,  Lee,  Whiting^ 
and  Phelps ;  and  Messrs.  Oomstock,  Feinthel  and  Fermand  were  assistants.     No 
catalogue  was  issued  for  this  year. 

1868-1869. 
Eev.    Eos  well   Harris,    A.    M.,   principal.     Miss  Emma  L.   Higley,  assistant. 
About  seventy-five  pupils.     No  catalogue  was  issued. 

June,  1872. 
Rev.  R.  G.  Williams,  principal.    Mrs.  M.  E.  Williams,  associate  principal.    Tay- 
lor B.  Fletcher,  M.  D.,  Rev.  Wm.  T.  Ross,   Ira  J.  Willard,  Miss  Mary  L.  Grose, 
Miss  Helen  E.  Bissell,   Miss  Martha  B.  House,  Miss  Sarah  A.  Harrison,   assistants. 
Gentlemen,  54 ;  ladies,  61 ;  total,  115. 

June,  1873. 
Eev.  E.  G.  Williams,  principal.     Mrs.  M.  E.  Williams,  assistant  principal.     Eev. 
H.  C.  Farrar,  Miss  Anna  E.  Thomas,  Miss  Helen  A.  Bissell,  Miss  Martha  R.  House, 
Miss  Mary  A.  Moody,  H.   A,    Hall,  Mrs.  1>.   G.  Rice,   assistants.     Gentlemen,  54  ; 
ladies,  68  ;  total,  122. 

November  20,  1827. 
Henry     Smith,    A.    B.,    principal;    Albert   Smith,    assistant;     Mrs.    Blair, 
preceptress.     Gentlemen;  45  ;   ladies,    33  ;  total,  78.     The  year  was   divided  into 
two  terms  of  twenty-four  weeks  each,  and  each  term  into  two  quarters  of  twelve 
weeks  each. — Press   of  Vermont  Statesman, Miner's  Print, 


We  find  no  report  of  the  Seminary  after  June,  1873,  when  the  last  class  was 
graduat  ed,  though  it  was  continued  as  a  separate  school  until  July,  1876,  when  it 
beca me  a  question  of  the  "  survival  of  the  fittest."  The  Normal  School  backed 
by  State  aid  won,  and  the  Seminary  was  merged  in  the  former  by  a  unanimous 
vote  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


76  HISTOBIOAL    MEMOEAIfDA. 


ACTS  RELATING  TO  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOLS. 

I. 

Approved  November  17,  1866 — an  act  authorizing  tlie  establishment  of  one 
Normal  School  in  each  Congressional  District,  three  in  number,  with  two  courses 
of  study.  Graduates  to  receive  certificates  for  five  and  fifteen  years  respect- 
ively. 

II. 

Approved  October  29,  1867 — *'An  act  to  legalize  certain  proceedings  of  the  town 
of  Castleton.'* 

"  Sec.  1.  The  proceedings  of  the  town  of  Castleton,  at  a  town  meeting  held 
on  the  tenth  day  of  September,  A.  D.  1867,  authorizing  the  selectmen  of  said  town 
to  draw  two  orders  on  the  treasurer  of  said  town  for  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars 
each,  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  the  corporation  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar 
School  in  preparing  a  suitable  building  or  buildings  for  the  Normal  School  recently 
located  in  said  town,  are  hereby  declared  legal  and  valid  ;  and  all  taxes  to  be  assessed 
upon  the  grand  list  of  said  Castleton,  for  the  purpose  of  paying  such  orders,  so 
drawn  as  aforesaid,  are  hereby  declared  legal  and  valid. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage." 

III. 

Approved  November  21,  3  867 — granting  five  hundred  dollars  to  each  Normal 
School  "for  the  purpose  of  assisting  indigent  young  men  and  women,  inhabitants  of 
this  State,  who  may  desire  to  more  perfectly  qualify  themselves  for  the  office  of 
teaching,  by  attending  the  Normal  Schools  within  this  State."  Persons  so  aided 
were  required  to  teach  at  least  two  years  subsequent  to  their  graduation. 

IV. 

Approved  Nov.  19,  1868 — directing  the  Board  of  Education  to  appoint  one  of 
their  members  to  act  as  examiner  of  the  Normal  Schools  and  grant  certificates  in 
connection  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Board.     Also  to  visit  at  other  times. 

V. 

Approved  November  20,  1868— appropriating  five  hundred  dollars  for  the  use 
of  each  Normal  School,  as  provided  by  law. 

VI. 

Approved  November  16,  1869 — appropriating  five  hundred  dollars  for  the  use 
of  each  Normal  School  *  *  provided  that  said  school  at  Castleton  shall  not  draw 
from  the  treasury  of  the  State  any  part  of  the  one  thousand  dollars  heretofore  appro- 
priated to  that  school. 


HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA,  77 

VII. 

Approved  November  22,  1870 — *'Seo.  1.  The  sum  often  hundred  dollars  per 
annum  is.  hereby  appropriated  to  each  of  the  three  Normal  schools  now  established 
in  this  State,  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  those  young  men  and  women,  inhabitants 
of  this  State,  who  may  desire  more  perfectly  to  qualify  themselves  for  teaching,  by 
attending  said  schools,  and  who  shall  give  satisfactory  assurances  to  the  Board  of 
Education  that  they  will  hold  themselves  in  readiness  to  teach  in  the  common 
schools  of  this  State  at  least  two  years  subsequent  to  their  graduation.'' 

VIII. 

Approved  November  22,  1870 — extending  the  existence  of  the  State  Normal 
Schools  until  March  1,  1875,  and  making  it  the  *'  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation to  nominate  and  approve  a  principal  teacher  and  a  first-class  assistant 
teacher  for  the  school,  and  to  withdraw  such  approval  whenever  the  interests  of  the 
school  demand,  and  no  person,  not  so  nominated,  or  the  approval  of  whom  shall 
have  been  withdrawn  by  the  board,  shall  be  employed  as  such  principal  or  first  assist- 
ant ;  but  the  principal  shall  be  allowed  to  select  his  other  assistants,  and  to  provide 
for  the  discipline  of  the  school." 

IX. 

Approved  November  27,  1872 — **Sec.  1.  The  further  sum  of  five  hundred 
dollars  per  annum  is  hereby  appropriated  to  each  of  the  three  Normal  Schools  now 
established  in  this  State,  to  be  expended  by  the  trustees  of  each  of  said  schools,  with 
the  concurrence  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of  Education,  in  aiding  and 
assisting  each  of  said  schools.*' 

X. 

Approved  November  23,  1874 — Extended  charter  to  August  1,  1880.  Also  pro- 
visions of  act  of  November  22,  1870. 

XL 

Approved  November  24,  1874 — Sec.  1.  State  Superintendent  to  nominate  and 
approve  principal  and  first  assistant  teacher. 

Sec.  2.     Governor  to  appoint  a  practical  teacher,  who,  with  State  Superintendent 
and  Principal,  shall  form  a  board  of  examiners  for  Normal  Schools. 

Sec.  3.  Trustees  to  arrange  two  courses  of  study,  and  graduates  to  receive  cer- 
tificates for  five  and  ten  years  respectively. 

Sec.  4.  Five  hundred  dollars  appropriated  for  each  school  and  one  thousand  for 
scholarships  to  each  school. 

Sec.  5.     Scholarships  apportioned  among  counties  according  to  population. 

XII. 

Approved  November  28,  1876.— Appropriations  to  be  paid  semi  annually,  in 
June  and  December.    Each  town  entitled  to  one  scholarship.    Town  superintendents 


78  HISTORICAL    MEMORANDA. 

to  appoint.  Vacancies  may  be  assigned  to  other  towns,  but  none  to  receive  more 
than  ten.  A  second  fiye  hundred  appropriated  when  the  trustees  furnish  a  like 
sum. 

XIII. 

Approved  November  26,  1878. — The  existence,  privileges  and  powers  of  the  Nor- 
mal Schools  extended  to  August,  1890.  Foreign  languages  excluded  from  courses 
of  study,  and  all  studies  and  subjects  not  named  in  the  two  courses  of  study.  Towns 
may  send  to  either  school. 

XIV. 

Approved  November  28, 1882 — appropriating  an  additional  five  hundred  dollars  a 
year  to  each  of  the  Normal  Schools  in  the  State,  to  be  expended  by  the  trustees  there- 
of, under  the  direction  of  the  State  Superintendent,  in  aiding  such  schools,  to  be  paid 
in  the  month  of  December,  upon  statement  of  superintendent  that  the  law  relating 
toNormal  schools  has  been  complied  with. 

XV. 

Approved  November  26,  1888 — extending  the  charter  of  the  Normal  Schools 
at  Castleton,  Johnson  and  Randolph  until  August,  A.  D.  1900. 


NORMAL  SCHOOL  SUMMARY. 

1867-1868. 

0.  R.  Ballard,  A.  M.,  principal.  Under  date  of  Feb.  1,  1889,  Mr.  Ballard  writes 
as  follows  :  **  I  taught  the  j^r^^  class  that  ever  graduated  at  Castleton  Normal 
School — a  class  of  three  young  ladies.  They  took  their  examination  at  Rutland 
l^efore  A,  E.  Rankin,  then  State  Superintendent,  and  one  of  the  three  failed.  The 
other  two  got  certificates." 

1868-1869. 

Miss  Higley,  assistant  to  Roswell  Harris,  writes  "  I  have  an  indefinite  idea  that 
he  (Mr.  Harris)  had  a  teacher's  class." 

1869-1874. 
Rev.  R.  G.  Williams,  principal.  Miss  Fannie  M.  Bromley,  first  assistant ;  Miss 
Annie  E.  Thomas,  L.  A.  Hall,  J.  N.  Stockwell,  J.  B.  Bromley,  assistants.  Winter, 
1869,  8;  1870,  spring,  15;  summer,  15;  gentlemen,  3;  ladies,  17;  total,  20. 
1870-71  :  fall  and  winter,  37  ;  springs  and  summer,  35  ;  gentlemen,  12  ;  ladies,  87  ; 
total,  49.     1871-72  :  fall  and  winter,  31;  spring  and  summer,  38  ;    gentlemen,  5  ; 


HISTORICAL    MEMOEAUDA,  79 

ladies,  40  ;  total,  45.  1872-73:  fall,  gentleman  1  ;  ladies,  31  ;  total,  32  ;  winter, 
gentleman,  1  ;  ladies,  22  ;  total  23  ;  spring,  gentlemen,  5  ;  ladies,  33  ;  total,  38  ; 
summer,  gentlemen,  4 ;  ladies,  31  ;  total,  35  ;  for  the  year,  gentlemen,  6  ; 
ladies,  53;  total,  59.  1873-74:  fall,  gentlemen,  5;  ladies,  56;  total,  61  ;  winter, 
gentlemen,  4 ;  ladies,  48  ;  total,  52 ;  spring,  gentlemen,  4  ;  ladies,  48  ;  total,  52  ; 
summer,  gentlemen,  4  ;  ladies,  38 ;  total,  42  ;  total  for  year,  78. 


1874-75. 

Edward  J.  Hyde,  A.  M.,  principal.  Miss  F.  M.  Bromley,  first  assistant  ;  Miss 
Mary  Hastings  and  Miss  Laura  A.  Brown,  assistants.  Fall,  44  ;  winter,  49  ;  spring, 
61 ;  summer,  42  ;  total,  66.      Average  attendance,  49. 

1875-76. 

Eev.  George  A.  Barrett,  principal.  Miss  Ella  Williams,  first  assistant  ;  Mr. 
K.  E.  Maranville  and  Miss  Cora  F.  Barker,  assistants.  Fall,  86  ;  winter,  39  ; 
spring,  46;  summer,  27;  total,  62.  Average  attendance,  37.  Average  attendance 
since  organization,  36. 

1876-77. 

Walter  E.  Howard,  A.  B. ,  principal.  Miss  Irene  S.  Clark,  first  assistant ;  Miss 
Mary  C.  JSTorthrop,  assistant.     Number  of  different  pupils  during  the  year,  64. 

1877-78. 

Walter  E,  Howard,  A.  B.,  principal.  Miss  Jennie  E.  Williams,  first  assistant  ; 
Miss  Jennie  L.  Cheever,  assistant.     Number  of  different  pupils  during  the  year,  70 . 

187S-79. 

Judah  Dana,  A.  M.,  principal.  Miss  Mary  Dana,  first  assistant  ;  Richard  Dana, 
and  Miss  Lucy  A.  Noyes,  assistants.  Number  of  different  pupils  during  the 
year,  73. 

1879-80. 

Judah  Dana,  A.  M.,  principal.  Miss  Mary  Dana,  first  assistant  ;  Richard 
Dana  and  Miss  Lelia  A.  Stevens,  assistants.  Number  of  different  pupils  during  the 
year,  108. 

1880-81. 

Judah  Dana,  A.  M.  principal.  Miss  Mary  Dana,  first  assistant ;  Richard 
Dana,  until  his  death,  March  1,  1881,  Henry  J.  Stevens,  the  rest  of  the  year,  and 
Henry  H.  Howe,  assistants.  Number  of  different  pupils  enrolled  during  the 
year,  121. 


80 


HISTORICAL  MEMORANDA, 


1881-89. 
Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  A.  M.,  principal  and  proprietor.     Miss  Louisa  M.  Leaven- 
worth, associate.  Miss  Abigail  E.  Leonard,  first  assistant ;  Miss  Lucy  Wells,  assistant ; 
Miss  Fannie  0.  Taylor,  assistant  five  years,  1881-86.     Miss  Emma  L.  Fuller,  matron 
and  assistant,  fall  of  1881.     Miss  Kate  M.  Hyde,  assistant  from  February,  1883,  to 
April,  1885.     Miss  Eleanor  L.  Manley,  assistant  from  April,  1885,  to  July,  1886, 
and  from  February,  1887  to  1889.     Miss  Ida  M.  Robbins,  assistant  from  August, 
1886,  to  January,  1887.     Miss  Anna  F.  Bell,  assistant  from  August,  1886  to  1889. 
Miss  Harriet  K.  Farnham,  assistant  from  August,  1887  to  1889. 


ATTENDAlsTCB. 

Year. 

Fall. 

87 

Winter. 

Term. 
105 

Spring. 

Summer. 

Term. 

Year. 

1881-2 

96 

102 

84 

107 

126 

1882-3 

135 

125 

144 

121 

90 

129 

167 

1883-4 

107 

108 

133 

115 

100 

119 

162 

1884-5 

125 

128 

139 

112 

96 

118 

166 

1885-6 

123 

130 

138 

140 

114 

147 

185 

1886-7 

143 

148 

167 

148 

112 

149 

213 

1887-8 

130 

135 

148 

138 

107 

142 

18f 

1888-9 

156 

163 

177 



GRADU. 

A.TES. 

Year. 

First  Coi 

arse. 

Secoi 

id  Course. 

Year. 
1880 

First  Course 

Second  Course 

1870 

3 

17 

4 

1871 

10 

1881 

18 

6 

1872 

14 

3 

1882 

11 

5 

1873 

11 

6 

1883 

7 

8 

1874 

25 

6 

1884 

14 

2 

1875 

15 

11 

1885 

25 

4 

1876 

9 

1886 

16 

5 

1877 

9 

4 

1887 

37 

2 

1878 

15 

6 

1888 

21 

3 

1879 

8 

3 

Total  -  - 

285 

73 

The  State  Superintendent  of  Education  in  his  report  for  1888,  makes  the  number 
of  graduates  in  the  First  Course,  295.  The  error  of  ten  in  the  above  table  arises  from 
the  fact  that  ten  graduated  in  both  courses  at  the  same  time  and  are  counted  in  the 
column  of  Second  Course  graduates  only.  Add  two  for  1868  and  the  number  will  be 
297. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCHES. 


The  records  are  so  incomplete  it  has  been  deemed  impracticable  to  attempt  the 
writing  of  an  extended  history  of  the  school.  Most  of  the  business  of  the  corpora- 
tion would  appear  to  have  been  done  through  committees  whose  reports  were  put 
on  file,  if  written,  and  not  made  a  matter  of  record.  Hence  we  have  printed  on  the 
preceding  pages  the  facts  of  which  we  felt  assured.  An  attempt  is  now  made  to  fill 
up  the  gaps,  or,  at  least,  to  bridge  them  over.  The  following  statements  have  been 
gleaned  from  the  History  of  Castleton  by  Rev.  Joseph  Steele,  a  historical  address 
by  Hon.  Henry  Clark,  June  30,  1870,  and  from  letters,  old  papers,  and  various  conver- 
sations with  old  residents,  each  having  been  corrected  as  to  facts  established  by  the 
other. 

It  appears  that  as  early  as  March,  1786,  efforts  were  made  to  secure  the  erection 
of  a  school  building  for  purposes  of  higher  instruction  than  the  district,  schools  at 
that  time  afforded.  This  was  twenty-five  years  after  the  charter  of  the  town  was 
granted  and  only  twenty  years  subsequent  to  the  first  recorded  meeting  of  the  pro- 
prietors. The  funds  were  raised,  a  building  was  erected,  and  a  school  began.  The 
sturdy  pioneers  of  that  period  treated  school  work  as  a  business  to  be  well  followed. 
The  school  year  consisted  of  forty-eight  weeks. 

Mr.  Steele  states  that  "Rev.  Oliver  Hurlbert  was  the  first  preceptor.  His  term 
of  service  was  in  the  old  gambrel  roof  school-house,  and  probably  continued  until 
that  school-house  was  burned.  Very  little  is  known  respecting  his  administration  ; 
only  this,  that  the  school  was  well  sustained,  under  the  circumstances.  Mr.  Hurl- 
bert subsequently  entered  the  ministry  and  was  settled  in  Ohio.  R.  0.  Moulton  was 
chosen  preceptor  soon  after  the  new  building  was  completed."  This  may  have  been 
Rollin  0.  Mallary. 

On  October  15,  1787,  an  act  was  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  of  Vermont, 
establishing  a  County  Grammar  School  in  and  for  Rutland  County,  and  naming  the 
"  New  School-House  "  at  Castleton  as  the  place  -wherein  it  should  be  taught.  The 
records  of  Dec.  6,  1806,  approve  ^'the  contract  for  furnishing  an  Instructor  for  the 
Present  Quarter."  It  was  also  "  voted  that  there  be  two  vacations  in  each  year,  that 
is  to  say  2  weeks  each,  the  1st  commencing  the  2d  Thursday  in  March ;  2d,  the  2d 
Thursday  in  September,  annually."  Also  '^  voted  that  there  shall  be  two  Publick 
Exhibitions  in  each  year,  semi-annually,  that  is  to  say  the  1st  on  the  2nd  Wednes- 
day of  March  and  the  2nd  on  the  2nd  Wednesday  in  September,  annually." 

On  July  2d,  1807,  it  was  voted  by  the  corporation  "that  John  Mason,  Elihu 
Smith  and  Enos  Merrill  be  a  committee  to  consult  Mr.  Halbnrt,  the  present  Precep- 
tor, and  see  if  he  can  be  obtained  as  Instructor  or  Preceptor  for  any  further  time, 
and  to  employ  any  other  under  Instructor  or  usher  they  may  think  expedient  for  the 
present  quarter."     The  teachers  would  appear  to  have  been  hired  by  the  quarter. 

The  committee  reported  on  July  20  ^'  that  they  had  engaged  Mr.  John  Denison 
as  an  usher  for  the  remainder   of  the   present   quarter,  at   the   sum  of  twenty  dol- 
lars ;  whereupon  Resolved^  that  said  Report  be  accepted."     The  gentlemen   named 
11 


82  HISTORICAL    SKETCHES. 

were  made  "a  standing  committee  of  the  corporation,  until  the  annual  meeting  in 
March  next/' and  were  "directed  to  employ  a  Preceptor."  A  very  full  code  of 
By-Laws  for  the  government  of  the  students  was  passed.  This  appears  to  have 
been  the  first  employment  of  an  assistant. 

Rev.  Sam'l  W.  Boardman,  D.  D.,  contributes  the  following:  ^'  Hon.  Rollin  0. 
Mallary,  graduate  of  Middlebury,  1805,  member  congress,  etc.,  was"  Preceptor  of 
Oastleton  Academy,  1S06. 

Ira  Bascom,  M.  D.,  tutor  in  Middlebury  College,  1810-11,  was  Preceptor  of 
Rutland  County  Grammar  School  at  Castleton  sometime  between  1807,  when  he 
probably  commenced,  and  1810. 

Rev.  Josiah  Peet,  graduate  of  Middlebury,  1808,  was  Preceptor  1808-9. 

Hon.  John  Willard,  LL.  D.,  graduate  of  Middlebury  College,  1813,  judge  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York,  taught  in  Castleton  1813-14. 

Henry  Howe,  Middlebury,  1817,  taught  1820  to  1825,  was  among  the  best 
scholars  in  his  class  and  had  an  honor  at  commencement  ;  tutor  at  Middlebury  Col- 
lege 1818-20,  and  teacher  at  Onondaga  1826-50,  where  Hon.  Stephen  A.  Doug- 
las, LL.  D.,  was  among  his  pupils.  He  was  one  of  the  most  useful  teachers  ever 
engaged  in  Castleton. 

Rev.  Walter  Follctt,  Middlebury,  1825,  was  Preceptor  Castleton  Academy  1825, 
1826. 

Hon.  Solomon  Foot,  LL.  D.,  United  States  Senator,  etc.,  was  Preceptor  1826, 
1827,  and  also  1828-29.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1829  in  founding  and  erecting 
Castleton  Seminary,  of  which  he  was  Principal,  1829-31. 

Rev.  Henry  Smith,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Middlebury,  1827,  tutor  1828-30,  President 
at  Marietta  College  and  Professor  in  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  was  Preceptor  of 
Castleton  Academy,  1827-28. 

Rev.  Sam'l  Storrs  Howe,  Middlebury,  1829,  tutor  1835-36,  Preceptor  of 
Castleton  Seminary,  1830-31. 

Rev.  Truman  Marcellas  Post,  D.  D.,  graduated  Middlebury,  1829,  with  vale- 
dictory, tutor  1830-32,  Principal  of  Castleton  Academy  1829-30.  Dr.  Post  became 
one  of  the  most  eminent  preachers  of  his  generation. 

Hon.  Alexander  W.  Buel,  graduated  Middlebury,  1830,  member  of  congress 
from  Michigan,  fitted  at  Castleton    Seminary  and  taught  there  1833-34. 

Hon.  James  Meacham,  Middlebury,  1832,  tutor  1836-38,  Professor  of  Rhet- 
oric and  English  Literature,  member  of  congress  1849-1856.  [Mr.  Meacham  taught 
herein  1832-33.— Ed.] 

Rev.  Edward  Hallock,  Middlebury,  1835.     [Principal  1838-56.— Ed.] 

Samuel  Millington  Wood,  Middlebury,  1836,  teacher  at  Castleton  Seminary 
1851-54. 

Hon.  William  Warner,  Middlebury,  1837,  taught  in  Castleton  Seminary,  1839, 
1842. 

Eber  Douglas  Munger,  Middlebury,  1842,  tutor  1846-47,  teacher  in  Castleton 
Seminary  in  1845-46. 

Hon.  John  Churchill,  LL.  D.,  member  of  congress  and  judaic  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  York,  Middlebury,  1843,  tutor  1845-46,  taught  classics  in  Castle- 
ton Seminary  1842-44. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Winchester,  1847-49.  Prof.  McKendree  Petty,  U.  V.  M.,  1849-51, 
Prof.  1854.     Rev.  Sam'l  Ward  Boardman,  D.  D.,  1853,  Middlebury,  1851,  Professor 


HISTORICAL    SKETCHES,  S3 

of  Rhetoric  and  English  Literature,  1859-61.  Selah  Gridley  Perkins,  Union 
College,  1847,  Castleton  1847  and  1851-52.  James  Tufts,  Yale  ;  Castleton  1845. 
Jonathan  Lane,  Yale;  Castleton  1846. 

Eev.  Edwin  Hall,  D.  D.,  Middlebury,  1826,  Professor  of  Systematic  Theology 
in  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  fitted  at  Castleton  Seminary  [and  taught  there  in 
1822,  and  perhaps  later]. 

Leonard  Rawson,  Middlebury,  1833,  tutor  1836-37.  He  was  a  teacher  also  in 
Castleton  for  a  short  time. 

Rev.  Charles  Walker,  D.  D.,  was  in  charge  of  the  Seminary  about  1832.  A 
Mr.  Mack  and  Rev.  Mr.  Clark  were  teachers  about  1837.^' 

We  print  the  foregoing  in  confirmation  of  much  of  the  matter  elsewhere  given. 
The  high  character  of  the  early  teachers  is  fully  proven  by  the  positions  of  honor 
they  afterwards  attained. 

Returning  to  the  records  of  July  22,  1809,  we  find  that  William  Dickinson  was 
elected  Preceptor.  Sept.  12,  1812,  it  was  "Resolved  that  Eleazer  Barrows,  late 
Preceptor  of  Castleton  Academy,  is  justly  entitled  to  our  public  thanks  for  the  tal- 
ent and  fidelity  he  has  manifested  for  nearly  two  years  past  in  conducting  the  con- 
cerns of  this  institution,  for  the  propriety  of  his  conduct  as  a  Preceptor,  and  his 
uninterrupted  success  in  the  improvement  of  those  students  entrusted  to  his  care.*' 
Hon.  Henry  Clark  states  that  about  1812,  *^  the  institution  passed  under  the 
charge  of  Ebenezer  Barnes,  who  was  a  popular  teacher,  and  gave,  both  to  the  corpo- 
ration and  community,  entire  satisfaction."  Mr.  Steele  states  that  John  L.  Cazier 
and  Horace  Belknap  were  each  of  them  preceptors,  but  it  does  not  appear  in  what 
years,  or  how  long  they  continued." 

In  1814-15,  the  expenses  of  the  school  were  $2,169.12  ;  the  receipts,  S2,000.85. 
In  1815,  the  buildings  were  removed  back  from  the  street,  chiefly  through  the 
efforts  of  Hon.  R.  C.  Maliary.  Mrs.  Olive  Branch  Maynard,  now  in  her  ninetieth 
year,  states  that  she  began  attending  school  at  the  Old  Yellow  Academy  in  1814,  at 
the  age  of  fourteen.  She  recalls  that  Rev.  John  Olancey  was  one  of  her  teachers, 
and  that  Henry  Howe  taught  for  a  year  about  1815,  having  left  college  to  earn 
money  to  go  on  with  his  studies.  It  appears  from  the  foregoing  statements  that 
many  of  the  early  teachers  were  either  college  students  or  young  graduates. 

In  1817-18,  the  expenses  were  $3,089.66;  the  receipts  $2,942.87.  Mr.  Steele 
states  that  Rev.  John  Clancey  taught  for  one  year  about  this  time.  In  1819-20,  the 
expenses  were  $1,082.41  ;  the  receipts,  $1,007.44. 

Since  the  foregoing  statements  were  put  in  type,  the  treasurer's  book,  with 
entries  from  August,  1806,  to  January,  1845,  has  come  to  light.  We  find  in  it  en- 
tries of  payments  made  to  the  following  named  persons  as  instructors,  including 
galary  and  board  : 

Rollin  C.  Maliary,  for  the  first  quarter,  ending  August,  1806  ;  Mr.  0.  Hurlburd, 
for  six  quarters,  ending  March,  1808;  Mr.  Josiah  Peet,  for  five  quarters,  ending 
June,  1809  ;  Mr.  Sheldon  for  the  thirteenth  quarter,  ending  September,  1809  ;  Mr. 
Hough,  for  fourteenth  quarter,  ending  December,  18 10  ;  Mr.  Barrows,  for  the  fif- 
teenth quarter,  ending  March,  1811  ;  Mr.  Hitchkoke,  for  the  sixteenth  quarter, 
ending  June,  1811;  Mr.  Barrows,  for  five  quarters,  ending  September,  1812 ;  Mr. 
Davis,  for  four  quarters,  ending  August,  1813.  A  memorandum  shoves  the  total 
expense  for  the  preceding  quarter  to  have  been  $'^,184,31  ;  the  receipts,  $2,121,56. 
Further  expenses  to  spring  of  1816,  133.53,  receipts,  $118.01,  leaving  in  the  treasury 


84  HISTORICAL    SKETCHES, 

$21.73.  (There  is  no  entry  of  payments  to  teachers  during  nearly  three  years,  so 
that  the  teachers  from  August,  1813,  to  spring  of  1816,  if  any,  must  have  taught 
for  the  tuitions.)  Mr.  H.  Belknap,  for  the  five  quarters  ending  August,  1817  ;  Mr. 
Henry  Howe,  for  the  five  quarters  ending  September,  1818.  From  other  entries  it 
would  appear  that  Rev.  John  Olancey,  was  principal  in  1818-19,  and  J.  L.  Burnap, 
in  1819-20.  Payments  were  also  made  to  Miss  Christie.  Mr.  Henry  Howe  returned 
in  1820. 

July  5,  1820.  Voted  ''  to  employ  Mr.  Henry  Howe,  in  the  capacity  of  perma- 
nent instructor,  for  the  term  of  one  year,"  and  to  increase  his  salary  fifty  dollars. 
Tuition  made  13.50  for  languages,  and  $3.00  for  Geography  and  Grammar.  The 
year  was  divided  into  two  t^rms  of  twenty-two  weeKs  each.  Oct.  17,  discussed  "the 
subject  of  employing  an  assistant  to  Mr.  Howe,  to  instruct  the  young  ladies."  Oct. 
20,  1820,  ordered  that  monitors  be  appointed  by  the  preceptor,  or  usher,  to  keep 
order  records.  July  15,  1821,  "resolved  that  we  employ  Mr.  Henry  Howe  for  the 
term  of  four  years,  to  commence  on  the  second  Wednesday  after  the  third  Wednes- 
day in  August  next,  and  that  said  corporation  give  him,  the  said  Howe,  as  a  com- 
pensation for  his  services,  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  dollars  per  annum,  and  one- 
half  of  the  sum  arising  from  tuition  in  said  R.  0.  Grammar  School.  Voted  that 
0.  Langdon.  E.  Merrill  and  S.  Gridley  be  a  committee  to  advertise  the  employment 
of  Mr.  H.  Howe,  as  above  resolved,  and  that  board  may  be  obtained  at  one  dollar 
per  week." 

March,  1822.  **Voted  that  Mr.  Henry  Howe  be  authorized  to  hire  Mr. 
Edwin  Hall,  of  Middlebury  College,  to  assist  him  in  instructing  the  Rutland  County 
Grammar  School."  July  25,  1824,  tuition  raised  to  three  and  four  dollars  per 
quarter. 

April  17,  1825,  voted  to  *'pay  Mr.  Henry  Howe,  after  the  expiration  of  the 
present  year,  *  *  *  three  hundred  dollars  and  one-half  of  the  sum  arising  from 
tuition."  Aug.  8,  1825,  '*  resolved,  unanimously,  that  the  thanks  of  this  corpora- 
tion be  presented  to  Mr.  Henry  Howe  for  the  faithful  and  courteous  manner  in 
which  he  has  uniformly  discharged  the  arduous  duties  of  principal  of  the  Rutland 
County  Grammar  School  and  Castleton  Academy,  during  the  six  years  he  has  super- 
intended the  institution,  and  assure  him  that  his  government  and  able  instruction 
have  always  received  our  cordial  approbation."  Mr.  Steele  states  that  Mr.  Hall  suc- 
ceeded Mr.  Howe,  but  it  was  probably  for  a  short  time  only,  if  at  all. 

From  the  notes  furnished  by  Dr.  Samuel  W.  Boardman,  we  learn  that  Rev. 
Walter  Follett  was  principal  in  1825-26  ;  Solomon  Foot,  in  1826-27  ;  Henry  Smith, 
in  1827-28;  Solomon  Foot,  in  1828-29;  Rev.  Truman  M.  Post,  1829-30;  Rev. 
Samuel  Storrs  Howe,  1830-31 ;  also  that  Leonard  Rawson  was  a  teacher,  date  not 
given.  From  other  sources  we  learn  that  Geo.  C.V.  Eastman  was  a  successful  precep- 
tor about  1831-32.  James  Meacham  must  have  been  preceptor  about  1832-33,  for  we 
learn  from  the  records  of  Aug.  14,  1833,  that  *^it  was  voted  to  pay  Alexander  Buel 
ten  dollars  for  hearing  recitations  after  Mr.  Meacham  left  the  school  and  previous  to 
Messrs.  Walker  and  Clark  taking  charge  of  the  same."  From  a'catalogue  published 
November,  1827,  we  learn  that  Henry  Smith  was  then  principal.  From  the  cata- 
logue of  October,  1826,  we  learn  that  Mr.  Foot  was  then  principal,  and  May  23, 
1828,  it  was  *' resolved  that  Mr.  Solomon  Foot  be,  and  hereby  is,  elected  principal 
of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  to  commence  on  the  duties  of  said  office 
after  the  expiration  of  the  present  quarter.     Resolved,  that  to  enable  said  Foot  to 


HISTORICAL    SKETCHES,  85 

supply  such  assistants  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  and  as  a  compensation  for  his  ser- 
vices, he  be  entitled  to  and  receive  all  the  fees  paid  by  the  students  for  tuition. 
Resolved,  that  the  secretary  transmit  to  Mr.  Foot  copies  of  the  foregoing  resolutions.'* 
Feb.  17,  1830,  '*  voted  to  pay  Solomon  Foot  twelve  dollars  and  sixty-seven  cents,  it 
being  the  amount  of  rent  he  paid  for  the  use  of  the  Female  Department  of  said 
school  the  year  past."  It  thus  appears  that  Mr.  Foot  was  principal  up  to  this  date. 
It  was  also  "resolved  that  Mr.  Foot  be  a  committee  to  revise  the  laws  of 
this  institution,  and  to  make  a  report  thereof  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  corpo- 
ration." March  2,  1830,  ^' after  hearing  Mr.  Foot's  report  of  laws  proposed  for 
adoption,  the  corporation  adjourned  to  the  8th  inst."  March  22,  1830,  '*  adopted  a 
code  of  laws  for  the  government  of  the  school,  and  the  secretary  was  ordered  to 
procure  four  hundred  copies  thereof  to  be  printed,  for  which  reference  may  be  had 
to  said  by-laws,  as  printed."  We  find  no  further  mention  of  Mr.  Foot  as  an 
active  member  of  the  corporation.  By  reference  to  the  circulars  of  the  ''Vermont 
Classical  Seminary,"  issued  February,  1830,  and  publis  hed  herewith,  it  will  be 
learned  that  Mr.  Foot  was  a  party  to  the  opening  of  a  rival  school,  and  Mr.  Board- 
man  states  that  **he  spent  the  summer  of  1829  in  founding  and  erecting  Oastleton 
Seminary,  of  which  he  was  principal,  1829-31."  From  a  copy  of  the  '^Oastleton 
Advertiser"  of  May  15,  1886,  we  learn  that  a  copy  of  the  Statesman,  printed  in 
Oastleton  by  Houghton  &  Glynn,  and  bearing  date  of  July  8,  1829,  had  been 
found,  in  which  it  speaks  of  the  celebration,  the  previous  Saturday,  of  the  53d 
anniversary  of  American  independence,  on  which  occasion  the  corner-stone  of  the 
High  School  building,  (the  present  Normal  School  building,)  was  put  in  place.  The 
report  in  the  Statesman  of  the  exercises  is  as  follows  : 

**  The  rising  of  the  sun  was  announced  by  the  firing  of  twenty-five  guns  and 
the  ringing  of  bells.  At  tioo  o'clock  p.  m.,  a  large  number  of  the  citizens  of  this 
aod  adjoining  towns  repaired  to  the  eminence  south  of  the  street,  where  the  High 
School  building  is  to  be  erected.  After  an  invocation  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Steele, 
the  corner-stone  was  laid  in  proper  shape  under  the  superintendence  of  Col.  Noah 
Lee,  a  venerable  patriot  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  assisted  by  Lieut.  Hall,  another 
Revolutionary  worthy,  and  Gen.  Clark  of  Middletown.  The  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence was  read  by  Z.  Howe,  Esq.,  when  an  appropriate  and  interesting  address 
on  the  subject  of  the  progress  of  intellectual  improvement  and  the  influence  of 
a  general  diffusion  of  knowledge  upon  our  social  happiness  and  our  national  pros- 
perity, was  delivered  by  Solomon  Foot,  the  principal  of  the  school.  The  company 
then  repaired  to  the  table  of  Mr.  Westover,  which  was  abundantly  supplied.  Hon. 
R.  C.  Mallary  presided  at  the  table,  assisted  by  Major  0.  N.  Dana,  the  marshal  of 
the  day."  The  report  continued  with  the  regular  toasts  of  the  day,  and  the  volun- 
teer toasts  by  the  following  persons:  G.  F.  Warren,  Solomon  Foot,  Hon.  R.  0. 
Mallary,  Hon.  Mr.  Moulton,  A.  W.  Hyde,  W.  A.  Branch,  Gen.  Clark,  and  Lewis 
Miner. 

It  appears  that  Mr.  Foot  and  his  associates  failed  to  realize  their  expectations  in 
establishing  a  boys'  boarding  school,  and  that  they  suffered  great  pecuniary  loss. 
Mr.  Arunah  W.  Hyde,  a  man  who  knew  not  the  word  fail,  came  to  the  rescue,  com- 
pleted the  building,  and  began  negotiating  to  find  some  use  for  it,  either  as  a  hotel 
or  a  school.  On  January  6,  1832,  a  committee  of  the  corporation  made  the  follow- 
ing report : 


86  HISTORICAL    SKETCHES. 

"  To  the  Corporation  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School  : 

Your  committee,  appointed  on  the  19th  day  of  December,  1831,  'to  report  a 
plan  for  promoting  the  interests  of  the  school,'  having  had  the  subject  under  consid- 
eration, would  respectfully  report,  that,  in  case  the  Baptist  deuomiaation  of  Chris- 
tians in  this  State  should  procure  the  building  erected  in  this  village  for  a  high  school, 
and  establish  therein  a  primary  literary  institution,  they  would  recommend  to  the  cor- 
poration to  apply  to  the  next  General  Assembly  of  this  State  for  an  act  to  be  passed 
authorizing  the  corporation  to  have  the  Rutland  County  G-ramniar  School  taught 
in  that  building,  and  to  constitute  a  branch  of  that  institution,  the  corporation  exer- 
cising the  right  of  nominating  one  of  the  instructors  thereof  ;  and  that  the  funds  of  the 
Eutland  County  G-rammar  School  be  appropriated,  after  paying  the  just  debts  now 
against  said  corporation,  for  the  support  of  the  instructor  by  them  nominated,  or 
for  the  support  of  that  branch  of  the  contemplated  institution."  "  The  foregoing 
report  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Steele  was  appointed  a  delegate  to  meet  the  trustees 
of  the  Baptist  Seminary  at  Rutland  on  the  Uth  inst.,  and  Z.  Howe  was  appointed 
substitute." 

March  20,  1833,  *' voted  that  Joseph  Steele  and  Z.  Howe  be  a  committee  to 
confer  with  Mr.  A.  W.  Hyde  and  ascertain  on  what  terms  he  will  let  the  building 
called  the  High  School  for  our  Academy,  and  report  to  a  future  meeting." 

April  8,  1833,  the  committee  reported  terms,  and  Mr.  Meacham  was  added  to 
the  committee  aforesaid,  and  they  were  instructed  to'*  circulate  a  subscription  paper 
for  the  purpose  of  raising  funds  to  procure  maps,  charts,  globes  and  philosophical 
apparatus  for  the  academy,  and  also  to  make  some  alterations  in  the  building  above 
alluded  to,  in  case  the  corporation  should  procure  the  same."  April  15,  1833,  the 
committee  were  "  authorized  to  take  a  lease  of  the  said  building  and  to  make  all  the 
repairs  and  alterations  to  the  same,  which  they  may  deem  necessary  for  the  accom- 
modation of  the  academy  ;.  also  to  procure  such  maps,  charts,  globes  and  philosoph- 
ical apparatus  as  may  be  requisite  for  the  school."  The  committee  were  also  author- 
ized to  contract  with  Messrs.  Charles  Walker  and  Lucius  F.  Clark  to  take  charge  of 
the  school,  and  to  pay  fifty  dollars  annually  towards  the  rent,  ''  in  aid  of  the  said 
Walker  and  Clark." 

August  14,  1833,  ''Voted  that  Messrs.  Steele,  Howe  and  S.  H.  Merrill  be  a 
committee  to  devise  ways  and  means  to  establish  a  Lyceum  in  connection  with  the 
Academy."  August  20,  Voted  to  establish  *'  Castleton  Seminary  Lyceum,"  and 
"  that  tickets  of  admission  be  furnished  to  the  scholars  at  twelve  an  a  half  centsd 
per  quarter,  to  individuals  not  connected  with  the  school  at  fifty  cents  a  year 
and  to  families  at  one  dollar  a  year."  May  6, 1831,  "  Resolved  that  the  corporation 
continue  to  occupy  the  building  now  in  use  for  the  school  for  the  further  term  of 
four  years  under  the  provisions  of  their  lease,  provided  they  can  effect  a  contract  for 
instructing  the  school  agreeably  thereto." 

March  23,  1835,  accepted  grant  from  the  town  and  First  Congregational  Society 
of  the  old  Congregational  meeting  house  for  the  use  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar 
School  and  "Mr.  Lucius  P.  Clark  was  authorized  to  circulate  a  subscription  paper  to 
raise  funds  to  purchase  the  building  now  occupied  for  said  school."  August  11,  1835, 
Messrs.  "John  Meacham  and  James  Adams  were  appointed  a  committee  to  make 
terms  for  sale  of  old  meeting  house  and  old  academy,"  and  Aug.  24  were  instructed 
to  sell  the  latter  at  auction.     May  20,  183G,  the  corporation  relinquished  their  rioht 


HISTORICAL    SKETCHES.  87 

and  title  to  the  old  yellow  academy,  to  the  town.  This  building,  with  its  enduring 
yellow  paint,  now  stands  upon  Railroad  Street  and  is  occupied  as  a  residence  by.  Mr. 
Charles  Brown. 

October  20,  1836,  ''Hon.  Z.  Howe,  member  of  the  Senate,  and  Solomon  Foot, 
Esq.,  member  of  the  House,"  were  requested  to  present  a  memorial  to  the  Legisla- 
ture asking  for  pecuniary  aid  for  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School.  July  14, 
1867,  "Voted  to  invite  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mack  to  take  charge  of  the  school  as  an  assis- 
tant principal  with  the  Rev.  L.  F.  Clark."  September  3,  1838,  "  Rev.  Edward  J. 
Hallock  was  duly  elected  principal  of  the  institution."  September  10,  1838,  Messrs. 
Howe,  Perkins  and  Dana  were  appointed  ''a  committee  to  take  a  conveyance  of  the 
building  now  occupied  by  said  Seminary  and  that  the  business  be  done  as  soon  as 
may  be."  Nov.  19,  1841,  voted  the  use  of  the  buildings  and  grounds  to  Mr.  Hallock 
for  five  years,  on  condition  that  he  raise  five  thousand  dollars  by  subscription  for 
benefifc  of  the  school.  This  subscription  was  accepted  by  the  corporation  on  N"ov. 
19,  1847,  and  a  lease  given  to  Mr.  Hallock  for  five  years  from  Sept.  1.  1846.  This 
subscription  was  passed  over  to  Mr.  Hyde  in  payment  for  balance  due  on  building, 
and  a  receipt  taken  in  January,  1848. 

High  tribute  is  paid  to  Principal  Hallock's  successful  service  of  eighteen  years, 
in  the  extracts  from  letters  already  quoted.  Messrs.  Clark  and  Mack  had  made 
efforts  to  raise  funds  to  buy  the  brick  edifice  of  Mr.  Hyde^  which  was  leased  from 
1833  to  1838,  but  had  failed.  Mr.  Hallock,  who  was  supplying  the  pulpit  of  the 
Congregational  church  for  a  season,  undertook  the  task,  subscribing  five  hundred 
dollars  himself  to  start  with.  He  succeeded  in  raising  five  thousand  dollars  and 
was  given  in  recognition  of  his  services  a  lease  of  the  seminary  property  for  five 
years.     But  we  forbear  and  leave   the   tributes  to  his  memory  to  his   loving  pupils. 

Rev.  Azariah  Hyde  succeeded  him  for  three  years,  1856-9,  and  Rev.  Stephen 
Knowlton,  from  1859-62.  Both  are  living  and  their  pupils  bear  testimony  to  sin- 
cere and  faithful  service.  Miss  Harriet  Newell  Haskell  succeeded  for  five  years, 
1862-7.  Our  poet  pays  a  fitting  tribute  to  her  reign,  and  hundreds  of  pupils  never 
cease  to  speak  her  praises.  Phoenix-like,  she  even  now  rises  from  the  ashes  of 
Monticello,  undaunted  by  adversity. 

A  period  of  depression  followed  her  departure  from  the  school.  The  corpora- 
tion leased  the  property  of  the  seminary  to  Rev.  Dr.  John  Newman,  D.  D.,  and 
Prof.  Richard  H.  Dutton,  of  ''  Ripley  Female  College,"  for  ten  years.  Mr.  0.  R. 
Ballard  was  employed  as  principal  of  two  schools,  ''  Castleton  Seminary  and  State 
Normal  School,"  as  the  circular  for  the  year  1867-8  states.  Three  young  ladies 
graduated  in  the  first  Normal  School  course  in  the  spring  of  1868,  and  two  in  the 
Seminary  course  in  July.  At  the  end  of  the  first  year  the  "  Castleton  Trustees '' 
sought  and  obtained  a  surrender  of  the  lease. 

Rev,  Roswell  Harris  was  employed  by  the  Trustees  during  a  greater  part  of 
1868-69.  Miss  Emma  L.  Higley  taught  with  him,  and,  after  he  left,  *^  had  a  select 
school  of  twelve  choice  girls." 

In  the  fall  of  1869  Rev.  R.  G-.  Williams  was  appointed  principal.  He  conducted 
two  separate  schools,  *'  Castleton  Seminary  "  in  the  brick  building,  and  the  **  State 
Normal  School"  in  the  Medical  College  building,  now  situated  at  the  right  of  the 
Seminary  building  proper.  He  labored  earnestly  to  build  up  both  schools.  His 
first  Normal  School  class  was  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1870,  and  his  last  Seminary 
class  in  June,  1873.     We  find  no  catalogue  of  his  school  for  1869-70,  but  we  learn 


88  HISTORICAL    SKETCHES. 

from  the  State  Superintendent's  report  that  his  assistants  for  that  year  were  Mrs. 
M.  E.  Williams,  Miss  Emily  S.  Sanford,  Miss  Emily  W.  Reed,  Miss  Annie  Ree  d, 
and  Kev.  W.  T.  Ross.  Mr.  Williams  left  in  the  summer  of  1874.  The  teachers 
since  that  date  may  be  learned  from  an  examination  of  the  Summary  of  Catalogues. 

The  Seminary  course  was  discontinued  in  1876.  In  May,  1881,  the  corpora- 
tion, by  authority  of  legislative  enactment,  sold  the  real  estate  and  personal  prop- 
erty to  Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  who  began  to  teach  in  1846,  and  has  taught  ever 
since,  save  three  years  in  the  army,  1862-5,  and  two  of  rest,  1879-81. 

The  known  living  principals  are  Rev.  Samuel  Storrs  Howe,  Perth  Amboy,  N. 
J.;  Rev.  Azariah  Hyde,  Galesburg,  Illinois  ;  Rev.  Stephen  Knowlton,  Greensboro', 
Vermont  ;  Miss  Harriet  Newell  Haskell,  Godfrey,  Illinois  ;  Ohas.  RoUin  Ballard, 
North  Easton,  Mass. ;  Roswell  Harris,  East  Saginaw,  Mich. ;  Rev.  R.  G.  Williams, 
Amherst,  Mass.;  Rev.  Geo  A.  Barrett,  Plattsburgh,  N.  Y.;  Hon.  Walter  E.  How- 
ard, instructor  in  Middlebury  (Vt.)  College;  Rev.  Judah  Dana,  West  Rutland,  Vt.; 
Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  Castleton,  Vt. 

Milo  Ingalsbee,  of  So.  Hartford,  N.  Y.,  writes  :  Unexpectedly  to  myself  I 
was  able  to  reach  your  place  at  a  late  hour  on  the  lOth  inst.,  though  compelled  to 
leave  before  the  close  of  proceedings.  I  was  highly  pleased  with  what  I  saw  and 
heard,  though  am  not  sure  but  I  feel  more  aged  for  the  trip,  as  I  did  not  see  a  face 
that  I  knew  there  in  1837.  Mr.  Boardman  and  Mr.  Sandford  were  boys  of  the 
vicinity  and  attended  the  Seminary.  The  boy  Boardman  was  brought  to  mind 
after  hearing  him  talk.  But  death  has  made  fearful  havoc  among  the  boys  of  '37. 
Merrit  of  Sacramento,  Cal.,  Reynolds  of  Saratoga,  Corliss  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and 
F.  Walker  of  Benson,  Vt.,  are  all  with  whose  whereabouts  I  am  familiar.  Dec.  2d  he 
writes  his  surprise  "-  that  so  little  was  publicly  said  of  my  old  preceptors,  Messrs. 
Clark  and  Mack.  Mr.  Mack  was  a  thorough  educator,  giving  his  whole  life  to  the 
work,  and  was  an  estimable  man.  Mr.  Clark,  as  I  remember  him,  easy  and  faulty, 
as  he  may  have  been  in  some  respects,  had  the  happy  faculty  of  elucidating  to  his 
students  the  practical  and  every  day  value  of  the  subject  matters  and  study  under 
review.  Had  I  been  a  public  speaker,  should  have  been  pleased  to  have  made  these 
statements  emphatic  at  your  meeting."  Under  date  of  March  28,  1888,  he  men- 
tions the  recent  death  of  William  H.  Ward,  a  student  in  the  early  thirties,  and  of 
Geo.  H.  Corliss  and  Lewis  T.  McLean,  fellows  of  his  at  the  Seminary  in  1837. 

Others  of  Mr.  Clark's  pupils  have  spoken  very  highly  of  his  methods  of  teach- 
ing geography  and  the  natural  sciences. 

The  writer  of  this  sketch  has  been  amazed  at  the  bright  galaxy  of  men  and 
women  that,  like  the  milky  way  of  the  heavens,  light  up  the  circuit  of  the  first 
century  of  this  school.  It  would  be  a  delightful  task,  were  it  possible  to  obtain 
authentic  dates,  to  compile  a  history  of  them.  Such  a  history  would  farnish 
inspiring  reading  for  those  who  with  small  faith  tremblingly  plant  a  new  institution 
of  learning.  The  long  array  of  persons  distinguished  in  the  learned  professions, 
the  fourth  profession  of  teaching  included,  is,  to  say  the  least,  marvelous.  Not  a 
few  have  achieved  distinction  in  the  halls  of  Congress,  as  senators  and  representa- 
tives, and  in  different  State  Legislatures ;  a  goodly  number  have  graced  the  bench 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York  and  of  other  States  ;  others  have  served  their 
country  well  in  the  army  and  navy,  while  a  long  array  have  achieved  success  in  the 
business  world.  Like  a  living  fountain,  rising  among  the  everlasting  hills  of  this 
beautiful  State,  this  institution  has,  for  a  century,  sent  forth  streams  of  iniiuence 
that  have  refreshed  and  blessed  State,  country  and  the  world. 


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Since  the  foregoiog  pages  were  printed,  the  following  facts  have  come  to  our 
notice  :  January  2,  1868,  the  first  session  of  the  Normal  School  was  opened  at  Cas- 
tleton.  Four  candidates  presented  themselves  for^j  admission,  and  were  examined 
by  Principal  Ballard  and  by  Hon.  M.  Clark  and  D.  D.  Gorham,  members  of  the  Ver- 
mont Board  of  Education.  One  ot  the  class  writes  as  follows :  "  During  the  three 
months  that  followed  we  accomplished  all  that  the  closest  attention  to  study,  intense 
application  and  persistent  determination  could  do  in  so  short  a  time.  Of  course  the  work 
was  little  else  than  review  of  previous  studies.  At  the  close  of  the  term  it  was 
thought  best  that  we  should  take  our  examination  at  Rutland,  where  a  teachers'  insti- 
tute was  to  be  held  just  at  that  time.  *  *  *  Only  three  members  of  our  class  went 
up  to  take  the  examination."  This  verifies  Principal  Ballard's  statement,  given  on 
page  78.  Miss  Rhoda  E.  Congdon,  now  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  Wallingtord, 
and  Miss  Mary  A.  Willard,  M.  D.,  now  practicing  medicine  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  passed 
the  examination  and  were  given  certificates  bearing  date  of  April  1,  1868.  These  cer- 
tificates were  signed  by  Lewis  Francis,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  C.  R.  Bal- 
lard, Principal  of  the  school,  and  A.  E.  Rankin,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education. 
This  statement  settles  the  fact  of  the  beginning  of  the  Normal  School,  though  not  any 
of  the  State  appropriation  was  used  by  this  school  during  the  first  two  years. 

On  page  fifth  of  the  Annual  Report  of  the  Vermont  Board  of  Education,  made 
to  the  General  Assembly  in  September,  1868,  we  find  that  they  elected  Miss  E.  O. 
Patch,  a  graduate  from  one  of  the  Massachusetts  Normal  Schools,  Principal  of  the 
State  Normal  School  at  Castleton,  and  that  she  began  her  school  on  September  23, 
1868.  We  learn,  also,  from  one  of  the  ladies  who  attended  the  school,  that  a  class  of 
about  twenty-five  entered  the  school  by  examination,  and  that  the  Seminary  was  not 
in  session  at  the  time.  Miss  Patch  has  since  achieved  a  reputation  as  one  of  Massa- 
chusetts' most  successful  teachers.  She  remained  here  only  a  short  time,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Mr.  Harris  and  Miss  Higley  as  teachers  in  the  Seminary  proper.  This 
was  evidently  the  year  when  the  continuance  of  both  Seminary  and  Normal  School 
hung  in  the  balance. 

On  page  78,  the  paragraph  under  1868  should  read,  *^Miss  E.  O.  Patch,  Princi- 
pal.    Number  of  pupils,  about  twenty-five." 


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Rey.  Geoege  Nye  Boardma^n,  D.  D.  Born  in  Pittsford,  Vt.,  December  23, 
1825.  Fitted  for  College  at  Castleton  Seminary.  Graduated  at  Middlebury  Col- 
lege in  1847.  Tutor  in  Middlebury  College  from  1847  to  1849.  Graduated  at  An- 
dover  Theological  Seminary  in  1852.  Professor  at  Middlebury  College  from  1853 
to  1859.  Pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  i»i  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  1859  to 
1871.  Professor  of  Systematic  Theology  in  Chicago  Theological  Seminary  since 
1871.     Received  degree  of  D.  D.  from  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1867. 

Charles  Edward  Patterso^^,  speaker  of  the  New  York  Assembly  of  1882, 
and  representative  of  the  First  district  of  Rensselaer  county,  wiis  born  of  American 
parents  of  English  descent,  at  Corinth,  Vermont,  May  3,  1842.     Ho  received  a  liberal 
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preparatory  education,  and  graduated  from  Union  College  with  honors  in  the  class 
of  1860.  Among  his  classmates  were  United  States  Senator  Warner  Miller  and  Neil 
Gilmour,  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  On  leaving  college,  Mr.  Pat- 
terson applied  himself  to  the  study  of  law  and  in  due  time  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
He  settled  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Troy,  and  has  for  many  years  been  one 
of  the  most  active  and  successful  practitioners  at  the  bar  of  northern  New  York.  In 
politics  Mr.  Patterson  is,  and  always  has  been,  a  Democrat.  In  1878  he  was  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  his  district  against  Walter  A.  Wood,  but  was 
defeated,  a  Greenback  candidate  drawing  largely  from  his  vote.  He  was  elected  to 
the  Assembly  without  opposition  in  the  fall  of  1880,  and  that  was  the  first  public 
position  to  which  he  was  chosen.  He  was  reelected  in  the  fall  of  1881  by  a  vote  of 
3,980  to  3,315  for  George  K.  Brown,  a  labor  reform  candidate,  whom  the  Kepubli- 
cans  also  adopted  and  nominated.  He  was  unanimously  nominated  for  speaker,  in 
the  Democratic  assembly  caucus,  January  2,  1882,  but  the  eight  Tammany  Demo- 
crats withheld  their  votes  from  him  and  voted  for  James  J.  Costello  of  New  York, 
until  February  2,  when,  on  the  twenty-eighth  ballot,  Mr.  Patterson  received  all  of 
the  Democratic  votes  and  was  elected  speaker  over  Thomas  G.  Alvord,  Eepublican. 
Mr.  Patterson  is  married  and  resides  at  Troy. 

John  Ingeesoll  Gilbekt  of  Malone,  Franklin  county,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Gilbert  was 
born  in  Pittsford,  Ptutland  county,  Vt.,  October  11,  1837.  Both  his  grandfathers 
were  Revolutionary  soldiers.  He  was  educated  at  Castleton  (Vt.)  Seminary,  North 
Granville,  N.  Y.,  and  Barre  (Vt.)  Academies,  and  the  University  of  Vermont  at 
Burlington,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1859.  He  was  formerly  a  teacher,  and 
was  principal  of  the  Eoyalton  (Vt.)  Academy,  two  years,  and  of  the  Franklin  Acad- 
emy at  Malone  six  years.  He  is  now  a  lawyer.  In  1862  he  delivered  the  Master's 
oration  at  the  University  of  Vermont  Commencement.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Assembly  in  1876,  '77,  '78,  serving  as  Chairman  of  the  Committees  on 
Engrossed  Bills  in  1876,  and  Railroads  in  1877,  Judiciary  in  1878,  and  of  the  Special 
Committee  on  Normal  Schools  in  1878,  and  also  as  member  of  Judiciary, Federal  Rela- 
tions, Indian  Affairs  and  Joint  Library.  He  was  elected  to  the  Senate  in  1883,  by  a 
majority  of  7,150,  in  which  he  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Committees  on  Litera- 
ture and  on  Internal  Affairs  of  Towns  and  Counties,  and  a  member  of  the  Commit- 
tees on  Judiciary  and  on  Joint  Library.  Mr.  G.  took  a  leading  part  in  the  Assem- 
bly in  promoting  the  adoption  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,  in  pushing  forward 
temperance  legislation,  and  in  defense  of  the  Normal  Schools.  He  also  took  a 
leading  part  in  the  debates  on  many  of  the  bills  before  the  Senate.  He  was  dele- 
gate-at-large  from  the  State  of  New  York  to  the  National  Republican  Convention 
at  Chicago  in  1884,  and  supported  Senator  Edmunds  for  nomination  to  the 
Presidency.  Mr.  Gilbert  is  now  a  member  of  the  Local  Board  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Potsdam,  N.  Y. ;  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Malone  vil- 
lage, N.  Y.;  and  President  of  the  Northern  New  York  Institution  for  Deaf  Mutes. 

Hon.  Merritt  Clark.  Mr.  Clark  was  born  in  Middletown,  Vt.,  February 
11th,  1803.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Castleton,  1817-19,  and  was  graduated  from 
Middlebury  with  honors  in  the  class  of  '23.  After  his  graduation  he  embarked  in 
business  in  his  native  town,  where  he  remained  until  1841.  In  that  year  he  became 
cashier  of  the  Poultney  Bank,  which  had  been  organized  chiefly  through  his  efforts, 
and  retained  that  place  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Clark  was  also 
one  of  the  principal  promoters  of  the  Rutland  and  Washington  railroad,  and  was 


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President  of  the  company  ''  from  its  organization  in  1847,  until  the  completion  of 
Ihe  road  to  Albany,  during  which  time  he  performed  almost  unparalleled  labors, 
and  with  the  firm  cooperation  of  his  indefatigable  brother,  triumphed  over  the  mosfc 
formidable  difficulties."  In  civil  life  Mr.  Clark  has  borne,  worthily,  many  honors. 
He  represented  Middletown  in  the  General  Assembly  in  1832-3-9,  and  Poultney  in 
1865-6.  He  was  a  State  Senator  in  1863-4,  and  1868-9.  In  1850  he  was  the  Dem- 
ocratic candidate  for  Congress,  and  was  twice  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Gover- 
nor. He  was  a  member  of  the  last  Constitutional  Convention  of  Vermont.  Under 
the  administration  of  President  Polk  he  was  United  States  Pension  Agent,  and  was 
postmaster  in  Middletown  and  Poultney  for  many  years.  He  has  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Vermont  Board  of  Education,  and  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Eutland 
County  Grammar  School  for  more  than  fifty  years.  He  has  also  proved  himself  a 
devoted  friend  of  the  Troy  Conference  Academy  at  Poultney,  in  some  important 
crises  in  its  history.  In  1852  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention at  Baltimore.  For  many  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Vermont  Mutual 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  half  a  century,  and  has 
held  important  town  offices  with  the  same  ability  and  devotion  with  which  he  has 
discharged  all  his  public  trusts.  In  1828  Mr.  Clark  married  Laura  L.  Langdon,  of 
Castleton,  a  lady  of  the  rarest  and  most  lovely  character,  whose  memory,  fragrant 
with  the  sweetness  of  hearthstone  love  and  kindly  deed,  is  still  cherished  by  all  who 
knew  her.  She  died  in  1869,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  Of  Mr.  Clark,  the 
National  Magazine,  published  in  1856,  says : 

"  A  clear^  far-reaching,  comprehensive,  vigorous  intellect,  and  a  bold,  decisive, 
tenacious  will  may  command  respect,  but  the  qualities  of  the  heart  only  secure  our 
love.  The  highest  tribute  is  due  to  his  sensibilities.  It  is  occasionally  our  blessing 
to  meet  a  man  with  a  soul — a  soul  that  extends  its  influence  out  so  far  as  to  light 
up  the  eye  with  kindness,  imprint  on  the  face  a  cheering  smile,  and  give  signifi- 
cance to  the  friendly  and  warm-hearted  grasp.  One  of  such  men  is  Mr.  Clark. 
The  success  of  his  mercantile  enterprise,  the  prosperity  of  the  Bank  of  Poultney, 
and  the  triumphant  success  of  all  his  plans  for  getting  a  railroad  from  Rutland  to 
Albany  are  the  very  best  exponent  of  his  financial  skill  and  managing  ability.  In 
his  own  town  he  is  a  noble  citizen.  There  is  no  enterprise  of  public  spirit 
demanded  by  the  interests  of  the  community  in  which  he  is  not  ready  to  take  an 
active  part.  In  a  cheerful  and  happy  old  age,  may  he  reap  the  rewards  of  useful 
and  virtuous  living." 

Much  of  the  foregoing  sketch  is  condensed  from  the  '*  History  of  Poultney," 
published  in  1874. 

Key.  Hei!TRY  P.  Higley,  D.  D.  Born  at  Castleton,  Feb.  1,  1839.  Fitted  for 
college  at  Castleton  Seminary,  graduating  in  1856.  Graduated  at  Middlebury 
College,  1860.  Graduated  at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  1865.  Pastor  at  Vevay, 
Ind.,  1865-6  ;  at  Beloit,  Wis ,  1866  to  present  time.  Received  degree  of  D.  D.  at 
Middlebury  College,  1886. 

Hok.  Andrew  N.  Adams  of  Fair  Haven  was  born  in  Fair  Haven,  January  6, 
1830.  fie  was  educated  at  the  Divinity  school  of  Harvard  University,  graduating  in 
June,  1855.  He  is  now  a  marble  dealer  and  merchant,  and  began  business  in  1861. 
He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  town  and  village  of  Fair  Haven,  trustee  and  president 
of  the  State  Normal  School  at  Castleton,  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Fair 
Haven,  and  Justice  of  the  Peace.     He  was  a  member  of  the   House  of   Representa- 


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tives  in  1884,  serving  on  the  Committee  on  Manufactures.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Senate  in  1888,  serving  as  Chairman  of  the  Joint  Committee  on  House  of  Cor- 
rection, and  as  member  of  the  Committees  on  Education  and  of  Elections.  His 
religious  preference  is  Unitarian,  and  in  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

F.  D.  Douglas  was  born  in  Cornwall,  Addison  County,  Vermont,  August 
21st,  1828.  His  father  died  when  he  was  quite  young,  leaving  a  large  family,  of 
which  he  was  the  youngest  member. 

In  his  boyhood  he  attended  the  common  and  select  schools  in  his  neighborhood 
and  also  one  term  at  Brandon  Academy.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  he  became  a 
student  of  Castleton  Seminary  and  commenced  preparation  for  a  collegiate  course 
under  Prin.  Hallock.  He  was  soon  after  compelled,  temporarily,  as  he  supposed, 
to  discontinue  his  studies,  in  consequence  of  a  severe  attack  of  inflammation  of  the 
eyes.  But  his  eyesight  was  so  seriously  impaired  by  the  disease  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  relinquish  his  studies. 

Having  been  born  and  reared  upon  a  farm,  and  enjoying  the  occupation,  he 
finally  decided  to  enter  upon  agricultural  pursuits.  Though  compelled  to  relin- 
quish an  academic  course,  he  has,  nevertheless,  been  a  thorough  student  in  the  vari- 
ous departments  of  his  chosen  calling.  He  has  followed  agriculture  as  an  intellec- 
tual, as  well  as  a  physical  occupation,  and  his  writings  upon  various  agricultural 
subjects  have  had  a  wide  circulation. 

In  the  dairy  department  he  has  been  especially  successful,  his  investigations  in 
this  direction  having  resulted  in  a  complete  revolution  in  the  general  dairy  practice 
of  the  country.  He  was  the  first  to  demonstrate  the  practicability  of  the  deep  set- 
. ting  of  milk  for  cream  raising  purposes,  and  to  explain  many  of  the  phenomena 
observed  in  dairy  practice,  not  previously  understood.  Although  his  ideas,  in  many 
respects,  were  directly  opposed  to  the  preconceived  opinions  and  prejudices  of  the 
time,  they  have  at  last  been  adopted  into  the  practice  of  the  most  intelligent  and 
progressive  dairymen  of  the  country. 

He  was  the  first  to  discover  the  true  character  of  the  globular  structure  of  the 
butter  particles  in  milk,  and  to  advance  the  true  theory  with  regard  to  the  ripening 
process  in  cream,  the  true  philosophy  of  churning,  etc.,  etc.  His  demonstration  of 
the  incorrectness  of  prevailing  scientific  opinions  upon  these  subjects,  in  an  address 
delivered  before  the  Connecticut  Board  of  Agriculture  in  1873,  was  pronounced  un- 
answerable by  the  leading  scientists  of  Yale  College,  and  other  prominent  scientists 
who  were  present.  His  theories  upon  these  subjects  are  now  the  prevailing  scien- 
tific theories  of  our  time. 

Mr.  Douglas  is  an  accepted  authority  in  dairy  science  and  practice,  and  pos. 
sesses  a  superior  reputation  as  a  writer  and  speaker  upon  general  agriculture. 

While  he  has  held  several  official  positions  he  has  never  sought  political  promo- 
tion. He  has  twice  been  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  each  time  holding  the 
position  of  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Agriculture.  He  was  for  several  years  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  ;  has  served  as  lecturer  at  the  State  Agri- 
cultural College  ;  been  employed  in  that  capacity  by  most  of  the  state  boards  of  agri- 
culture in  New  England,  and  also  by  the  State  Agricultural  Society  of  New  York.  He 
has  for  a  long  time  been  connected  with  the  Vermont  Dairymen's  Association,  as  its 
president,  etc.,  and  has  been  commissioned  by  several  governors  of  the  state  as  del- 
egate to  various  national  agricultural  conventions. 


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Mr.  Douglas'  life  has  been  an  active  one,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  his  work 
in  the  promotion  of  the  material  interests  of  the  country  has  been  quite  as  benefi- 
cial to  the  world  as  his  services  would  have  been  had  he  secured,  as  he  intended,  a 
classical  education  and  adopted  the  legal  profession,  which  would  have  been  the 
profession  of  his  choice. 

Arukah  Waterman  Hyde  was  born  at  Hyde  Park,  Vermont,  July  14,  1799. 
His  father,  Pitt  W.  Hyde,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  that  part  of  the 
state  and  through  his  exertions  for  the  public  interest  earned  the  right  of  naming 
the  county  seat  of  Lamoille  county.  He  removed  to  Sudbury  in  1802,  where  Aru- 
nah's  boyhood  was  spent  upon  his  father's  farm.  At  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  of 
age  he  became  a  student  at  Castle  ton  Seminary.  Soon  after  he  obtained  a  position 
in  the  store  of  James  Adams.  After  five  years  he  purchased  the  business  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Oliver  M.  Hyde.  In  1829,  learning  that  the 
funds  raised  by  Solomon  Foot  were  insufficient  for  the  completion  of  the  building 
for  the  Vermont  Classical  Seminary,  Mr.  Hyde  completed  the  building  at  a  cost 
of  more  than  thirty  thousand  dollars.  Indeed,  he  is  claimed  to  have  been 
both  projector  and  architect.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  the  prosperity  of  the 
town,  and  erected  the  Mansion  House,  three  brick  houses  on  Seminary  street,  the 
marble  block,  corner  of  Main  and  Seminary  streets,  and  a  number  of  frame  houses 
in  other  parts  of  the  village,  opening  up  new  streets  for  that  purpose.  In  1831:  he 
closed  his  mercantile  business,  and  in  1837  purchased  the  lines  of  mail  stages  from 
Oastleton  to  Salem,  from  Rutland  to  Whitehall,  and  from  West  Rutland  via  Clar- 
endon Springs  to  Salem.  Ln  1839  ho  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Pitt 
W.  Hyde,  and  purchased  the  lines  of  stages  from  Middlebury  to  Burlington,  Mid- 
dlebury  to  Rutland,  via  Woodstock  to  Hanover,  N.  H.,  and  from  Fort  Ticon- 
deroga  to  Lake  George,  with  a  winter  line  extending  to  Montreal,  and  from  Albany 
to  New  York  City.  In  1844  this  stage  property  was  sold.  In  1842  A.  W.  Hyde 
purchased  a  water  power  and  mill  site  at  Castleton  Mills,  afterwards  named  Hyde- 
ville  in  his  honor,  and  built  the  second  marble  mill  of  any  size  in  Rutland  county. 
He  purchased  a  marble  quarry  at  West  Rutland,  and  in  1844,  with  P.  W.  Hyde, 
formed  a  partnership  with  D.  B  Fuller,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hyde,  Fuller  & 
Hyde.  This  company  owned  most  of  the  property  about  Hydeville.  In  1850  the 
business  was  sold  to  the  Hydeville  Co.  and  A.  W.  Hyde  was  made  president,  a  posi- 
tion he  held  until  his  death.  He  was  also  deeply  interested  in  the  quarrying  and 
manufacture  of  roofing  slate,  as  also  in  the  building  of  the  Rutland  and  Whitehall 
railroad.  He  filled  large  contracts  for  constructing  portions  of  it  and  was  made 
president,  holding  the  office  for  twenty  years.  He  was  a  man  of  public  spirit, 
interested  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  prosperity  of  his  town  and  state,  yet  lie 
persistently  refused  every  public  office  tendered  him,  saying  that  ho  had  no  time 
for  such  service.  He  was  killed  in  October,  1874,  by  an  engine,  while  crossing  the 
track  of  the  railroad  to  the  construction  of  which  he  had  freely  given  time  and 
money,  near  the  site  of  Fort  Castleton,  but  the  memory  of  his  many  good  deeds  sur- 
vives him. 

Pitt  William  Hyde  was  born  at  Sudbury,  Vt.,  March  3,  1817.  He  was  one 
of  the  sixteen  pupils  who  attended  Mr.  Foot's  first  term  in  the  new  building  in  1830. 
He  early  settled  at  Castleton,  and  was  a  stage  owner  and  mail  contractor  from  1839 
to  1845.  He  then  settled  with  his  half  brother,  Arunah  W.  Hyde,  at  what  is  now 
Hydeville,  and  was  the  postmaster  there  many  years.     The  brothers  established  here 


94  BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES. 

extensive  mills  and  built  up  a  large  business.  He  was  active  in  society  work,  educa- 
tional and  political.  He  was  Town  Eepresentative  from  Castleton  in  1862,  '63  and 
'64 ;  Senator  from  Eutland  county  in  1865,  ^QQ^  and  served  upon  important  com- 
mittees in  the  General  Assembly  during  these  five  years ;  Selectman  from  1862  to 
1873,  save  1870  ;  President  of  Eutland  County  Agricultural  Society,  1865,  '66  ;  of 
the  State  Agricultural  Society,  1866,  '67  and  '68  ;  Justice  of  the  Peace,  1865  to  1872  ; 
Treasurer  of  Eutland  and  Whitehall  E.  E.,  1869;  member  of  the  Constitutional 
convention,  1870  ;  director  of  the  State  prison,  1863,  '64  ;  director  National  Bank  of 
Pair  Haven,  1865  to  1872;  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  and  Mining, 
1870  to  1873.  In  business  he  was  very  methodical,  and  the  large  scrap-books  devoted 
each  to  some  particular  line  of  interest  and  the  very  full  diaries  he  kept  will  in  the 
coming  years  be  of  great  interest  and  value  to  the  historian  of  this  vicinity.  As 
president  of  the  corporation  of  Eutland  County  Grammar  School,  he  was  very  active 
in  promoting  its  prosperity,  giving  of  his  money  and  time  liberally.  He  died  at 
his  home  in  Hydeville,  June  23,  1881,  not  an  old  man  in  years,  but  having  lived 
long  because  he  lived  well. 

Miss  Harriet  N.  Haskell  was  born  in  Waldoboro,  Me.,  January  14, 1835. 
Entered  Castleton  Seminary  as  student  at  twelve  years  old.  The  Seminary  was 
then  in  the  charge  of  Eev.  Edward  Hallock.  In  1850  she  entered  Mt.  Holyoke 
Seminary  and  was  graduated  in  1855.  She  held  the  Principalship  of  Waldoboro 
High  school  many  years  ;  was  "  Lady  Principal"  of  Pranklin  Grammar  School, 
Boston,  Mass. ;  accepted  the  Principalship  of  Castleton  Seminary  in  1862  ;  left  July, 
1867,  to  accept  the  Principal's  chair  at  Monticello  Seminary,  Godfrey,  111. ,  at  which 
place  she  is  now  serving  her  twenty-second  year. 

AJ3EL  Edgar  Leavej^worth  was  born  at  Charlotte,  Vt.,  September  3,  1828. 
He  was  reared  upon  a  farm,  attending  Hinesburgh  Academy  a  short  time  each  fall 
and  spring,  teaching  winters  and  working  upon  the  farm  summers,  after  his  seven- 
teenth year,  and  at  twenty-one  he  entered  the  University  of  Vermont.  He  taught 
winters  and  worked  summers  to  pay  his  way  through  college.  In  April,  1852,  he 
accepted  the  principalship  of  Bolivar  (Mo.)  Academy.  In  August,  1855,  he  became 
principal  of  Hinesburgh  (Vt.)  Academy.  In  August,  1856,  ho  took  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  at  the  U.  V.  M.,  and  in  1860  that  of  A.  M.  In  1859  he  was  appointed  by 
the  State  Teachers'  Association  Chairman  of  the  Committee  to  establish  a  School 
Journal,  and  continued  editor-in-chief  and  principal  proprietor  until  entering  the 
army.  In  1860  he  became  principal  of  Brattleboro  Academy,  from  which  he  also 
retired  to  enter  the  army. 

He  enlisted  as  private,  May  21,  1862;  w^as  appointed  First  Sergeant  of  Co.  K, 
9th  Vt.  Vols.,  July  9,  1862;  promoted  First  Lieutenant  Nov.  17,  1862,  and  Captain 
December  1,  1864.  Was  appointed  A.  A.  Inspector  General  of  VVisfcar's  Brigade  at 
Suffolk,  Va.,  by  Maj.  Gen.  Dix,  June  10,  1863.  From  June,  1863,  until  December, 
1864,  he  served  in  the  Inspector  General's  Department,  and  from  September,  1864, 
until  April,  1865,  in  the  Adjutant  General's  Department,  as  Adjutant  General  of  an 
important  command  immediately  in  front  of  Eichmond.  On  April  3,  1865,  he  com- 
manded the  skirmish  line  that  led  the  advance  into  Eichmond  ;  April  5,  1865,  was 
detailed  by  Maj.  Gen.  Weitzel  as  Assistant  Provost  Marshal,  with  orders  to  report  to 
the  Provost  Marshal  General  of  the  Department  of  Virginia,  and  was  placed  on  duty 
in  the  principal  office  at  Eichmond.  He  served  later  in  the  same  capacity  under 
Brigadier   General   John  Patrick,    Provost  Marshal   General  of   the  Army  of  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES.  95 

Potomac,  and  later  still  as  Adjutant  General  of  the  District  of  the  Appomattox. 
He  was  mustered  out  of  service  at  Richmond,  Va.,  Jnne  13,  1865,  at  the  expiration 
of  his  term  of  service,  and  was  discharged  at  Burlington,  Yt.,  one  week  later. 

In  August,  1885,  he  again  became  principal  of  Hinesburgh  Academy  for  three 
years ;  then  of  New  Haven  Academy,  and  of  Beeman  Academy,  at  New  Haven,  from 
1868  to  1875,  leaving  it  with  a  fund  of  twelve  thousand  dollars  ;  then  of  Randolph 
State  Normal  School  from  December,  1874,  until  July,  1879,  during  which  period 
he  had  over  six  hundred  pupils  and  signed  over  two  hundred  and  fifty  graduation 
diplomas,  leaving  the  school  with  the  capacity  of  its  building  doubled  and  a  perma- 
nent fund  of  twelve  thousand  dollars.  In  May,  1881,  he  became  proprietor  of  the 
real  estate  and  personal  property  of  the  Rutland  County  Grammar  School,  and  in 
August  of  that  year  becanje  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School  at  Castleton. 
His  work  in  connection  with  this  school  may  be  gathered  from  other  portions  of 
this  report.  He  has  ever  been  actively  identified  with  the  educational  interests  of 
the  State  of  Vermont.  Since  1856  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  State  Teachers^ 
Association,  most  of  the  time  an  officer  in  it,  and  its  President  in  1882-3.  In  1871-2 
he  was  one  of  the  six  teachers  appointed  to  select  text  books  for  use  in  all  the 
schools  of  the  State  for  five  years. 

Ever  active  in  promoting  the  well-being  of  the  communities  where  he  has 
resided,  he  has  filled  many  offices  in  various  societies  and  organizations,  and  in  the 
church  of  his  childhood's  faith.  As  the  last  probable  work  of  his  life,  he  has  under- 
taken to  lift  the  school  of  revered  memory  at  Castleton  from  its  burden  of  debt  and 
to  establish  it  again  upon  a  firm  and,  it  is  to  be  hoped^  an  enduring  basis.      Com. 


CONCLUSION 


This  pamphlet  is  the  offspring  of  the  desire  of  about  four  score  of  the  former 
pupils  expressed  in  a  subscription  for  about  twice  that  number  of  copies.  Once 
started,  it  has  grown  to  its  present  proportions,  out  of  a  desire  to  search  out  and 
preserve  for  future  generations  valuable  historical  data.  It  is  not  simply  a  sketch 
of  the  Centennial  Celebration,  but  has  reached  out  to  gather  up  facts  in  the  early 
history  of  the  school  that  would  soon  have  passed  beyond  the  reach  of  the  historian. 
For  nearly  two  years  the  search  has  been  unremittingly  prosecuted  and  not  a  month 
has  passed  by  without  witnessing  the  unearthing  of  some  interesting  fact.  The 
Summary  of  Catalogues  has  been  collated  with  great  care.  The  Historical  Sketch 
could  now  be  written  better,  but  both  are  full  of  rich  and  abiding  interest  to  all 
ever  connected  with  the  school.  The  Biographical  Sketches  have  been  almost  nec- 
essarily confined  to  such  as  could  be  obtained  of  those  who  took  part  in  the  pro- 
ceedings and  of  others  prominently  identified  with  the  school  in  the  past.  The 
preparation  of  this  book  has  been  a  work  of  labor,  but  also  of  love.  As  such  we 
submit  it  to  the  just  criticism  of  the  former  pupils,  teachers  and  friends  of  the 
school.  Letters  of  criticism,  corrections  and  additional  information  sent  to  the 
Principal,  or  to  any  member  of  the  Committee  on  Correspondence,  will  be  thank- 
fully received  and  carefully  treasured  in  the  archives  of  the  school  for  future  use. 
Copies  of  missing  catalogues  are  especially  desired . 


ADDENDA. 


OASTLETON   SCHOOL   CENTENNIAL,    1787-1887. 


Public  Exercises  at  the  Congregational   Church  at  10    o'clock  a.   m., 

Wednesday,  August  10th, 

REV.  GEOKGE  N.  BOARDMAN,  Presiding. 

Capt.  a.  B.  Leavenworth,  Marshal. 


SONG, 
PRAYER, 


MUSIC. 
'VWelcome," 


MUSIC. 

''  Banquet," 


OVERTURE, 

CITIZENS'  WELCOME,  -  .  .  . 

TRUSTEES'  WELCOME, 

Response  by  the  President. 
MUSIC. 


Double  Quartette. 
Rev.  F.  W.  Olmsted. 


-    Schlepegrel. 

Hon.  J.  B.  Bromley. 

A.  N.  Adams,  Esq. 


SELECTION, 
ADDRESS, 

GAVOTTE, 
POEM, 

COLLEGE  SONGS, 
PRINCIPAL'S  GREETING, 

WALTZER, 
BENEDICTION, 

GALOP, 


*' Grand  Medley," 

MUSIC. 

*'  Etta." 

MUSIC. 


MUSIC. 
**Lagunen,"    - 

MUSIC. 
'' Brilliant," 


Boettger. 
Hon.  John  I.  Gilbert. 

King. 
-     Emily  G.  Alden. 

-     Theo.  Tobani. 
Capt.  A.  E.  Leavenworth. 

J.  Strauss. 
Rev.  H.  p.  Higley,  D.  D. 

Gautzberg. 


Dinner  at  2  p.  m.  in  the  Seminary  Park.  Reception  in  the  School  Parlors  from 
8  to  10  p.  M.  Fireworks  and  music  in  the  evening.  The  music  for  the  day  and 
evening  by  Estabrook's  Military  Band  and  Orchestra. 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY  OF  laiMOIS 


JSoRMAL  Hall. 


1868. 


Seminary. 


CiiAriiL. 


Ciiuiicii. 


INTERIOR  OF  CHURCH. 

NAMES  OF  PRINCIPALS  UPON  THE  WALLS, 
8onth. 


PULPIT. 
PLATFORM. 


Evergreens. 


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•YKYo: 


ORCHESTKA. 


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See  Historical  Sketch  for  names  of  Principals  since  ascertained. 


When  sliall  toe  laugh  ?  Say,  when  f 

Mbrohaht  of  Veis"ioe,  Act  J,  Scene  1. 


1787 1887. 

Castleton  School  Centennial. 


DINNER 


Served  in  the  Seminary  Park  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  August  10th. 


HON.  CHARLES  E.  PATTERSON,  Presidikg. 
Horace  B.  Ellis,  Chairman  Dinner  Committee. 

If  it  please  you  to  dine  with  us. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  Act  I,  Scene  3. 

Noiv  good  digestion  loait  on  appetite, 
And  health  on  loth. 

Macbeth,  Act  III,  Scene  4. 


MENU 


REMOVES. 

Roast  Beef  of  Ribs.  Roast  Beef  of  Sirloin. 

Roast  Lamb.  Roast  Chicken.  Roast  Mutton.  Roast  Veal. 

BOILED. 

Ham.  Lamb.  Mutton.  Corned  Beef.  Tongue. 

ENTREES. 

Chicken  Pie.  Veal  Pie.  Lamb  Pie.  Baked  Pork  and  Beans. 

DESSERT, 

Apple  Pie.  Mince  Pie.  Squash  Pie.  Pumpkin  Pie. 

Custard  Pie.  Lemon  Pie.  Blackberry  Pie.  Rice  Pudding. 


Angel  Cake.  Golden  Cake.  Sponge  Cake.  Chocolate  Cake. 

Cream  Cake.  Cocoanut  Cake. 

RELISHES. 

Pickled  Beets.  Pickled  Cucumbers.  Worcestershire  Sauce. 

Wheat  Bread.  Brown  Bread.  Cream  Biscuits.  Crackers. 

FRUITS. 

Apples.  Watermelons.  Pears.  Musk  Melons. 

Almonds.  English  Walnuts.  Pecan  Nuts.  Brazil  Nuts. 


COFFEE.  TEA.  MILK. 

Thon  shalt  not  gormandize. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  Act  II,  Scene  5. 


Before  we  proceed  any  farther,  hear  me  speak. 

CoRiOLANUS,  Act  ly  Scene  1. 


TOASTS. 


1.  The  State  of  Vermont: 

The  mother  of  men — the  builder  of  schools.  Her  wandering  sons,  with 
hands  that  touch,  have  stretched  for  her  a  broader  boundary  than  the  narrow  rim 
of  lake  and  river,  and  made  for  her  another  realm  unseen. 

2.  The  Rutland  County  Grammar  School: 

The  eldest  child  of  poor  but  honest  parents,  it  has  borne  the  burden  and  heat 
of  the  day  ;  and  now,  in  its  old  age  and  in  the  evening  of  the  century,  trots  the 
Normal  School,  its  healthy  grandchild,  on  its  knee. 

3.  Castleton  Seminary : 

The  spring  in  the  mountains,  the  fount  of  strength  and  inspiration,  the 
shrine  of  happy  memories  ;  its  strength  endures,  its  charm  lives  on,  its  blessing 
deepens  with  the  passing  years. 

4.  The  State  ISformal  School: 

The  evolution  of  the  times,  and  as  it  looks  to  the  future  with  steadfast 
heart,  may  it  prove  to  be  the  survival  of  the  fittest. 

5.  Castleton   Village: 

The  home  of  faith  and  hospitality ;  its  shady  streets  have  felt  the  tread  of 
many  feet  that  wander  far,  and  no  one  goes  but  longs  to  come  again. 

6.  The  Corporation: 

The  grave  guardians  of  great  interests,  their  labors  have  not  been  without 
fruit,  nor  their  anxieties  without  reward. 

7.  The  Press: 

Ever  foremost  in  advocating  the  cause  of  education,  it  has  been  the  comrade 
of  the  school  in  the  battle  against  ignorance,  and  together  they  will  educate  the 
world. 


I  luill  weary  yott  no  longer^  then,  with  idle  talking. 

As  You  Like  It,  Act    V,  Scene  2. 

He  that  outlives  this  day  and  comes  safe  home 
Will  stand  a  tiptoe  lohen  this  day  is  named. 

King  Henry  V,  Act  IV,  Scene  3. 


COPY  OF  CIRCULAE  ISSUED  IN  1830. 
(First  page.) 
Wood  Cut  of  Building: 
(Title.) 
Vermokt  Classical  Semhstart. 
(Second  page  blank.) 
(Third  page.) 

PROSPECTUS. 

This  Institution,  located  in  the  village  of  Castleton,*  Vermont,  will  be  opened 
for  the  reception  of  students,  under  the  superintendence  of  the  subscribers,  on  the 
12th  of  May  next. 

The  building  erected  for  the  purpose  is  situated  on  an  eminence  south  of  the 
village,  and  commands  an  extensive  view  of  a  rich  and  beautiful  country.  It  is  160 
feet  in  length,  and  40  in  breadth,  with  projections  in  the  centre  and  ends  of  46  and 
55  feet,  and  is  three  stories  high,  exclusive  of  a  basement.  The  basement  contains 
a  large  dining  hall,  kitchens,  wash-rooms,  domestics*  rooms,  &c.     In  the  second  story 

(Fourth  page.) 

are  Professors' rooms,  a  Laboratory,  Chapel,  a  public  School-room,  four  private  Recita- 
tion rooms,  a  Library  and  Business  room.  The  two  upper  stories  contain  Instructors' 
rooms  and  fifty  dormitories,  about  13  feet  square,  exclusive  of  a  closet,  which 
are  provided  with  stoves,  beds,  tables,  desks,  chairs,  &c.  To  the  building  is  attached 
a  play  ground  of  about  six  acres,  a  part  of  which  is  to  be  devoted  to  a  Garden. 

The  course  of  instruction  in  this  Institution  will  be  arranged  under  five  divisions, 
to  wit  : 

1.  Chemistry  and  Natural  History. 

2.  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy. 

3.  Ancient  Languages. 

4.  Modern  Languages. 

5.  English  Literature. 

Each  of  these  divisions  will  be  under  the  charge  of  competent  Instructors. 
Where  the  course  of  study  is  left  discretionary  with  the  Superintendents,  they  will 
prescribe  that  which,  in  their  opinion,  is  best  calculated  to  render  the  pupil  an 
accomplished  scholar ;  but  a  parent  or  guardian  may  select  any  particular  branches, 
to  which  the  attention  of  the  pupil  will  be  exclusively  directed. 

Chemistry,  Natural  History,  and  Natural  Philosophy,  will  be  taught  by  lectures 
and  recitations. 

(Fifth  page.) 

During  appointed  hours  of  the  day  the  other  studies  will  be  pursued  in  a 
school-room,  under  the  eye  of  a  teacher.  The  exercises  of  each  day  will  open  from 
5  to  7  o'clock  a.  m.,  (varying  with  the  season,)  with  prayer  by  the  Chaplain  of  the 
Seminary  ;  and  there  will  be  from  two  to  three  recitations  during  the  day. 

*  Castleton  village  is  situated  fourteen  miles  east  of  Whitehall,  or  the  head  of  Lake  Cham- 
plain,  on  the  great  stage  road  from  Albany  to  Montreal,  which  is  intersected  at  this  place  by 
the  Boston  road,  via  Rutland  and  Keene.  The  village  contains  a  flourishing  Medical  College 
and  Grammar  School,  and  is  justly  admired  for  its  salubrious  and  elegant  location. 


The  recreations  of  tke  pupils  will  consist,  in  the  summer,  in  collecting  speci- 
mens in  botany,  mineralogy,  &c.;  during  the  winter,  exercises  of  various  kinds  will 
be  conducted  in  the  large  hall  in  the  Seminary.  A  certain  number  of  the  more 
advanced  students  will,  in  rotation,  act  as  assistants  in  the  lectures  on  Chemistry, 
Natural  Philosophy,  Botany,  &c. 

On  the  Sabbath,  all  the  students  will  be  required  to  attend  church,  or  the 
religious  exercises  of  the  Chaplain  in  the  Chapel.  Recitations  will  also  be  had  upon 
Ecclesiastical  History,  Evidences  of  Christianity,  &c.  The  gre  atest  attention  will  at 
all  times  be  paid  to  the  moral  deportment  of  the  youth  who  may  be  placed  in  this 
Institution.  They  will  in  no  case  be  permitted  to  leave  the  grounds  attached  to  it, 
without  permission.  There  will  be  two  vacations ;  one  from  the  third  Wednesday 
in  April,  of  three  weeks;  and  one  from  the  second  Wednesday  of  August,  of  five 
weeks. 

(Sixth  page.) 

Terms,  $200  a  year,  including  tuition,  board,  room,  furniture,  washing,  mend- 
ing, firewood,  lights,  etc.,  payable  senii-anually  in  advance.  No  student  to  be  ad- 
mitted for  less  than  a  year.  The  financial  concerns  of  the  Institution  will  be  con- 
ducted by  Mr.  G.  F.  Warner,  with  whom  all  business  in  that  department  should  be 
done. 

The  superintendents  are  aware  of  the  responsible  duties  which  they  have  assumed  ; 
but  with  some  experience  in  the  management  of  youth,  and  with  the  determination 
to  devote  their  best  efforts  to  the  scientific  and  moral  education  of  those  committed 
to  their  charge,  thev  respectfully  solicit  the  patronage  of  the  public. 

LEWIS  C.  BECK, 
SOLOMON  FOOT, 
CxsTLETON,  Vt.,  February^  1830.  Superintendents. 

(Seventh  page.) 

BEFEEENCES. 

Hon.  R.  C.  Mallary,  Poultney,  Vt.  Hon.  Hoeatio  Seymoue,  Middlebury,  Vt. 
Hon.  William  Jarvis,  Weathersfield,Vt.  Hon.  Hekey  Shaw,  Lanesborough,  Mass. 
Rev.  JoHK  Bristed,  Bristol,  R.  I.  T.  Romeyn  Beck,  M.  D.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Nathan  S.  S.  Beman,  Troy,  N.  Y.,  Rev.  Dr.  RowAif,  New  York  City. 
Israel  Smith,  Esq.,  Albany,  N.  Y.  Hon.  Jesse  Clarke,  Waterloo,  N.  Y. 

John  B.  Beck,  M.  D.,  New  York  City.    Rev.  J.  P.  K.  Henshaw,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Rev.  Ben  J.  B.  Smith,  Philadelphia,  Pa.     Horatio  Gates,  Esq.,  Montreal. 
Rev.  Reuben  Post,  Washington  City. 

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JOHN  R.  LANDON,  Esq., 
Litchfield, 

Con. 


Vermont  State  Normal  School, 

castleton,  a.  d.  1889. 


BOAEDS  OF  CONTROL. 

MANAGERS. 

Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  Proprietor.    Miss  Louisa  M.  Leavenworth,  Associate. 

THE   corporation. 

Hon.  Andrew  N.  Adams,  President.  Hon.  Jerome  B.  Bromley,  Secretary. 

Carlos  S.  Sherman,  Treasurer. 

committee  on  scholarships. 
A.  E.  Leavenworth,         E.  H.  Armstrong,         D.  D.  Cole. 

examiners. 
Hon.  Edwin  F.  Palmer,  State  Superintendent  of  Education. 
Abel  E.  Leavenworth,  A.  M.,  Principal  of  SchooL 
Chas.  H.  Dunton,  a.  M.,  D,  D.,  Principal  Troy  Conference  Seminary.  - 

instructors. 


Abel  E.  Leavenworth, 

Algebra,  Constitutions,  Psychology, 

Pedagogy. 

Abigail  E.  Leonard, 
Arithmetic,   Physiology,  Sciences,  Liter- 
ature, General  History. 

Lucy  Wells, 

Grammar,   Authors,   Reading,  History, 

Algebra. 


Eleanor  L.  Manley, 
Reading,  Geography. 

Annie  F.  Bell, 

Arithmetic,    Grammar,    Drawing, 

Geometry. 

Harriet  K.  Farnham, 
Primary  Work,    Bookkeeping,    Miner- 
alogy, Constitutions. 


This  Normal  School  was  authorized  by  the  General  Assembly  Nov.  17, 
1866,  located  by  the  State  Board  of  Education  Feb.  18,  1867,  and  put  into  opera- 
tion Jan.  2,  1868.  Since  that  time  it  has  graduated  two  hundred  and  ninety-seven 
in  the  First  Course  of  study  and  seventy-three  in  the  Second  Course  of  study.  A 
large  majority  of  these  have  been  employed  since  graduation  in  all  grades  of  schools 
and  have  been  with  few  exceptions  successful  as  teachers,  and  by  their  thorough 
work  and  widespread  reputation,  in  connection  with  the  graduates  from  the  Ran- 
dolph and  Johnson  schools,  have  vindicated  the  wisdom  of  the  establishment  of 
normal  schools  and  secured  their  perpetuation  by  a  practically  unanimous  vote  of 
the  General  Assembly  at  its  last  session. 

Two  Courses  of  Stu  dy  are  adopted,  as  required  by  law.  The  First  Course 
extends  through  two  years,  or  four  terms  of  twenty  weeks  each,  and  embraces  the 
following  studies  : 

First  Year. — Reading,  including  Phonic  Spelling^  Word  Analysis,  Accent, 
Emphasis  and  Expressio7i ;  Penmanship,  with  special  attention  to  iir«7z^-i/(9y5we/i^5, 
Formation    and  Relative  Proportion  of  the  Letters,  and  Position  at  the  Desk ; 


Grammar,  including  Paraphrasing,  Analysis  and  Composition  ;  Geography,  Mathe- 
matical, Physical,  Descriptive  and  Political ;  Arithmetic,  including  Decimals,  Per- 
centage and  its  Applications,  Interest,  Powers,  and  Roots  ;  Book-keeping,  Accounts 
and  Business  Forms  ;  Natural  Science,  Elements  of  Mineralogy  and  Botany  ;  Draw- 
ing, Orthographic  J  Geometry,  Elements  of  Plane. 

Second  Year. — Language,  Reading,  Grammatical  Analysis  ;  Physiology,  illus- 
trated by  a  Fine  set  of  Plates  and  Manikin  ;  Geography,  Completed  and  Reviewed  ; 
History,  Vermont  and  U^iited  States  ;  Constitutions,  Vermont  and  United  States  ; 
Drawing,  Perspective  ;  Arithmetic,  Mensuration  and  Review  ;  Methods,  Theory  and 
Practice^  History  of  Education,  Economy  of  the  Sohool  Room,  Vermont  School  Laws. 

Khetorical  Exercises,  weekly  ;  Calisthenics,  in  connection  with  Reading. 

The  Second  Course  of  Study  embraces  one  year  and  a  half,  or  three  terms 
of  twenty  weeks  each.  The  studies  are : — First  term,  Plane  Geometry  or  Algebra, 
Physics,  Authors,  Geology  or  Zoology.  Second  Term,  Algebra,  Chemistry, 
Astronomy,  English  Literature,  General  History.  Third  Term,  Quadratics,  Solid 
Geometry,  English  Classics,  Psychology,  Moral  Philosophy,  Pedagogy. 

Graduates  must  be  seventeen  years  of  age.  Teachers  of  experience  and  persons 
who  have  taken  a  course  of  study  at  other  schools  may  complete  the  First  Course 
in  less  than  two  years,  and  the  Second  Course  in  one  year. 

Graduates  from  the  First  Course  receive  a  State  License  to  teach  in  any  public 
school  of  the  State  for  a  term  of  five  years  ;  those  from  the  Second  Course,  receive 
a  License  for  ten  years. 

A  preparatory  department  of  two  grades  is  maintained  for  the  instruction  of 
those  not  prepared  by  age  and  attainments  to  enter  upon  the  First  Course.  A 
school  for  primary  instruction  is  also  maintained.  The  instruction  is  largely  by 
topics.  In  each  recitation  the  best  methods  will  be  sought  and  illustrated.  The 
aim  of  the  school  is,  fi,rst,  to  secure  the  knowledge  of  the  subject ;  second,  to  itistruct 
171  the  lest  method  of  impartifig  that  knowledge  to  others. 

Over  eighty  free  scholarships  may  be  had  by  members  of  this  school,  and  for 
the  first  time  in  its  history  the  full  number  has  this  year  been  filled.  Appoint- 
ments may  be  made  from  any  town  in  the  State.  The  number  of  students  the 
past  year  reaches  250,  with  an  average  per  term  of  nearly  200,  and  an  average  per 
quarter  of  over  150.  Tuition  is  six  dollars  per  quarter  of  ten  weeks.  Board 
is  thi^ee  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  week,  two  to  occupy  one  room.  This 
includes  oil  for  lamp,  furnished  room,  fuel  and  washing  of  twelve  pieces  per  week, 
exclusive  of  garments  requiring  extra  time  and  labor  in  the  laundry.  Boarders 
will  furnish  their  napkins,  articles  for  toilet  use,  bed  covering  and  pillows.  One 
hall  is  set  apart  for  self -boarders.  For  this  purpose  rooms  are  furnished  with  wood 
closets,  cupboards,  tables,  chairs,  and  bedsteads  with  straw  bed.  Soft  water  is  sup- 
plied in  abundance  on  this  hall,  and  wood  is  supplied  at  two  dollars  per  stove  cord. 
Single  rooms  to  one  person,  six  dollars  per  quarter ;  two  persons,  eight  dollars* 
Double  rooms,  ttuelve  dollars  per  quarter.  A  reading  table,  supplied  with  papers 
and  magazines,  is  maintained.  Each  pupil  pays  twenty-five  cents  per  term  towards 
its  maintenance. 

During  the  past  eight  years  the  building  has  been  remodeled  at  an  expense  of 
over  six  thousand  dollars,  and  it  is  now  well  furnished  throughout  for  school  pur- 
poses. The  fall  term  begins  on  the  third  Tuesday  in  August ;  the  Spring  term,  on 
the  third  Tuesday  in  February.  Year  by  year  the  number  and  average  age  of  the 
pupils  have  steadily  increased,  and  the  school  appears  to  have  taken  a  new  lease  of 
life  as  it  enters  upon  its  second  century. 


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